Christmas Hope · Book 1

The Christmas Shoes

Published
1 January 2001
Pages
144
ISBN-13
9781559277747
Type
novel
Cover of The Christmas Shoes

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.

Key facts about The Christmas Shoes

Donna VanLiere wrote The Christmas Shoes, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2001. The book has 144 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781559277747 to find the main one.

The Christmas Shoes is book 1 of 11 in the Christmas Hope series. The series has 11 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.

Additionally, Donna VanLiere writes End-Times Trilogy as a separate series. Those series sit on our inspirational fiction and biblical fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Daniel's Final Week is the latest published Donna VanLiere book on file, from 2022.

About Donna VanLiere

Donna VanLiere (born 1966 in Ohio) is an American novelist best known for The Christmas Shoes, her 2001 debut, and the string of Christmas-season novels that followed it. She studied at Cedarville University in Ohio before moving to Franklin, Tennessee, after marrying her husband, Troy, where she worked in Nashville theater, commercials, voiceover, and radio while writing on the side. See every Donna VanLiere book in order.

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…

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