When a poor shoemaker and his family come to Chicago from Germany to start a new life with only a box of glittering glass ornaments, a devastating fire destroys their new home and shop, forcing them to move into an abandoned shack filled with cobwebs, and soon, the shoemaker must sell his family's treasured ornaments, but on Christmas morning a sparkling surprise awaits them! Jr Lib Guild.

A poem for four voices, in which generations of ghosts gather to watch a family eat a holiday dinner, verbally drooling over every piece of food and grumbling at the way mortals rush through their meal