This is a beautifully illustrated holiday story. I’d buy it for my children, but not my classroom. It has an important and fitting message.

It's Christmas time and Stephanie and her dad are finishing some holiday decorating. From the first page, the book sets into motion the rhythm of holiday traditions and the comfort of repeating them each year: decorating for Christmas, preparing delicious recipes, and getting together with family. As Stephanie and her dad share a warm cup of hot chocolate, her dad tells about events from 40 years ago that helped their community see Christmas in a whole new light.

Children will enjoy snuggling up with a parent to hear the tale that involved two towns at odds and the courageous group of young people who braved a blizzard to help make Christmas more special. With their child-like faith, they experienced a Christmas miracle that spread warmth, love, and forgiveness throughout both sides of the mountain. This sweet story will help children see that they can set an example for adults to follow.
The illustrations by Emily Pritchett are truly breathtaking and wonderfully complement the story! Readers can check out the illustrator's website for more examples of her beautiful artwork. Children will enjoy coming back to this story again and again to relive the Christmas miracle.

Disclaimer: I received a free digital copy of The Seed of Faith from NetGalley for the purpose of review. No other compensation was received.

This is a beautiful story of Faith. Though this is a Christian themed but most important is every children should be taught to keep faith, when in trouble.

This is the story which is inside one another story. Whole story of Faith was narrated by a Father to his daughter on asking why the hill upfront their home called a 'Faith Hill'?

There were two towns parted by this hill titled 'Faith Hill', Reidsville & Shiloh. Both were so different in that season of winter from when this story was narrated. Former was full of bloom and richness whereas the latter one was affected by drought. People of the town didn't even get a single tree left of Frazer Fir (wrongly mentioned as 'Frazier' on page #20, editorial/formatting mistake) to celebrate their cultural trait of Chistmas.
Three boys Elijah, Joey & Yankee from the Shiloh decided to bring one tree from Reidsville by hiding as the mayor of the Reidsville denied eveyone from his town to help anyone from Shiloh. Same way 3 boys from Reidsville decided to gift one tree to the people of Shiloh, by hiding, so that no one left to celebrate on that occasion even in other town. Among those 3 boys the leader was mayor's own son Caleb & his other 2 friends Bobby & Chris.
On their way to each other's side they got lost under blizzard. Their they met a mystery man Joshua who came out of nowhere and save them from the stormy night. He gave them a seed to sow, up the hill. Later that morning they found Joshua nowhere and found by the search from Shiloh leading by their Sheriff, Drucker.
On that night of Chistmas when Caleb at the gathering told people to come for help against new law set in place by his Mayor father and do not just stay put on the matter of Christ's day, they all left for Shiloh to celberate together. At that point when boys were in competition to make snowmen, Joey saw and indicated all to look up the hill for the most beautiful tree they had seen ever.

Hence the Story narrated on faith. Later, when Stephanie was gifted the box by her father the same which he told her Joshua given the seed inside of it, she got confused and amazed at the same moment. He told her that her father was the boy 'Yankee', nicknamed by his friends, instead of Dan which is his official name.

I really liked the story content as there was so much to read and enjoy. I have read few reviews where logical reasons were given on how one side of Mountain is full and other one is void of anything. TRUE. But, I would like to say that such stories never work on logical reasonings, as these all have been made up and not real facts. 'Believing the facts' and 'keeping the faith on something made-up' are 2 both different things. Logically it could easily be nullified but moral stories are mainly made-up to pass the message of positivity and not to settle scores with what actually happened on earth; In that case, even the whole concept went down, dumped below the surface. Because as it has already been made point in one of my earlier picture-books by 'Katie Anderson', "Holly Holiday and the Christmas Forest", that cutting of Trees, be it for festivities or in the name of uncertified culture, must be stopped and found ways to keep the nature in her proper place. (my reviews from the book: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5144985620?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1)

Merry Christmas!! in Advance to all, especially Dan Petronelli & his family.
Thanks!!

I personally really enjoyed this story, the message and the feels it gives was beautiful. I also loved the illustrations as well, It just brought the whole story together. I enjoy seeing what I'm reading and this did it for me, thank you!

I loved the faith based Christmas story like to
This one. My kids liked it too. My only complaint was that jt was difficult trying to figure out how to download it.

I almost didn’t read this book after requesting it because I struggled to get it downloaded onto something other than my laptop computer. I then decided that it was not very long, and I could stand the uncomfortable way of reading it but after reading a bit past the first chapter I have to admit I was not very impressed with the writing. It seemed clunky and unnatural to me. I also had a bit of an intellectual battle with the description of how “strangely” the leeward side of the local mountain was in drought while the other side got plenty of rain. I admit, I am a bit too much of a realist about some things. My faith, though, kept me reading and I am very glad that it did! The story of the Christmas miracle that occurred in these fictional towns was absolutely beautiful. The tale was especially so because it involved the faith of six young boys. I will not write any more about the story itself so as not to spoil the wonderful book. I will just comment that the illustrations were lovely, soft-colored, and realistic, and I enjoyed that there were so many of them. The book is perfect for young readers. It is a chapter book, but the chapters are short, vocabulary quite simple and there are illustrations nearly every other page. It would be a shame to miss the chance to share reading this book together as a family, though. I look forward to reading this book again during the holiday season. Thank you to NetGalley, Daniel Petronelli and Walnut Ridge Publishing Company for the ARC of the book. My review is my own opinion.