Christmas Hope · Book 1
The Christmas Shoes
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN-13
- 9781559277747
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Christmas Shoes opens the Christmas Hope series in 2001, Donna VanLiere's debut novel inspired by the popular Christmas song of the same name about a boy buying shoes for his dying mother's final Christmas. Its unexpected success as a New York Times bestseller led to a 2002 CBS film starring Rob Lowe and the rest of the series.
Its place in Christmas Hope
The Christmas Shoes is book 1 in the Christmas Hope series. It is followed by The Christmas Blessing. See the full Christmas Hope reading order.
The Christmas Hope series began with Donna VanLiere's 2001 debut novel The Christmas Shoes, itself inspired by the popular Christmas song of the same name, about a boy buying shoes for his dying mother's final Christmas. The book's unexpected success -- a New York Times bestseller adapted into a 2002 CBS television film starring Rob Lowe -- led VanLiere to continue writing a loosely connected series of Christmas-season novels roughly once every one to two years for two decades. Rather than following one…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781559277747