01900cam a2200289 4500 367969107 TxAuBib 20190114120000.0 120508s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012017327 9781567926095 paperback $12.95 1567926096 paperback $12.95 (OCoLC)772099543 TxAuBib Hall, Donald, 1928- Christmas at Eagle Pond / Donald Hall. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. 78 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. "Donald Hall, drawing on his own childhood memories, gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond. It's the Christmas season of 1940 and twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents. Once there, he quickly settles into the farm's routines. In the barn, Gramp milks the cows and entertains his grandson by speaking rhymed pieces, while his grandson's eyes are drawn to an empty stall that houses a graceful, cobwebby sleigh. Now, Model-As speed over the wintry roads, which must be ploughed, and the beautiful sleigh has become obsolete. When the church pageant is over, the gifts are exchanged, and the remains of the Christmas feast put away, the air becomes heavy with fine snowflakes--the kind that fall at the start of a big storm--and everyone wonders, how will Donnie get back to his parents on time? "-- Provided by publisher. 20190114. Hall, Donald, 1928-2018. Sleighs Fiction. Farm life Fiction. New Hampshire History 20th century Fiction. Christmas stories. Autobiographical fiction.