A short story about the joy and need to share abundance with those who don’t have as much.

There were some situations that felt hard to explain to young children: a greedy adult, children disobeying their parents, and children taking unsafe risks.

It was not my favorite Christmas book but might be a nice family read aloud for the Christmas season if you are looking for a tale that is religious but is not the true Christmas story.

Thank you the NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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 Christmas.
Three boys Elijah, Joey & Yankee from the Shiloh decided to bring one tree from Reidsville by hiding as the mayor of the Reidsville denied everyone 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 Christmas 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 celebrate 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 [author:Katie Anderson|5832765], [book:Holly Holiday and the Christmas Forest|62882392] 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. (<a href=https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5144985620?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1>my reviews from the book</a>)

Merry Christmas!! in Advance to all, especially Mr. Dan Petronelli, Mrs. Emily Hurst Pritchett & their respective families.
Thanks!!