Christmas In The Trenches

BY JOHN MCCUTCHEON, ILLUSTRATED BY HENRI SORENSEN
It is cold and clear on Christmas Eve night in 1914. Francis Tolliver and his fellow British soldiers are holed up in muddy trenches along the Western Front. The German soldiers lie in wait across a field known as "No Man's Land." Suddenly a strange sound pierces the darkness. Someone is singing a Christmas carol in German. When the song ends, Thomas and the other British soldiers sing a carol. Soon carols are sung back and forth across No Man's Land. Then a figure emerges in the dark, carrying a small Christmas tree. Slowly the British and German soldiers leave their trenches, and the war, behind to stand together in the open field. Includes a CD with 2 songs and a reading of the book.

Peachtree 2007 32 PP. + CD Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)

This Fire

Politics, Love And Other Small Miracles

BY JOHN MCCUTCHEON
"... When we gather 'round that fire there's no telling what stories might be told. Songs of love and politics, courage and forgiveness, parody and pathos, somehow they are not unrelated. When I gathered the songs for this collection they captured a small piece of time in a long life of trying hard to pay attention. They seemed to remind me of some small truths I've learned. If hard times can't have humor we won't survive them. If old love doesn't have some memory of youthful passion it, too, will fade. And the many stories of ordinary people responding to ugliness with beauty continue to fascinate and thrill me. Politics, love and other small miracles...all fueled by this same fire."

McCutcheon 2007 CD Disk

$18.00 (in stock)