Zanna's Gift A Life In Christmases

Zanna's Gift SCOTT RICHARDS From the pen of a masterful storyteller comes a touching and inspirational story of love, loss, and the true meaning of Christmas that will take its place beside Richard Paul Evans's Christmas Box Trilogy. In 1938, when the Pullman family lost their eldest son, Ernie, to an unexpected illness just before Christmas, it was devastating to all of them, but especially to young Suzanna, their four-year-old daughter. She shared a special bond with her big brother. A strangely gifted child, Zanna loved to draw, but Ernie was the only one who was able to see the pictures in the curious patterns she made. But he never saw the Christmas drawing she had made just for him that year. This is the story of that gift, and how it inspired her and her whole family, generation to generation, to keep alive the spirit of love, imagination, and hope for Christmases to come. Suzanna Pullman grew up to be a famous artist, but in the hearts of her children and grandchildren, her nieces and nephews, that drawing, her Christmas Gift for her brother Ernie, was truly her most important work. It was brought out every Christmas, a gift to those who had passed on and a reminder that families are made up of more than the living members. As Suzanna's husband said to her on their first Christmas together, the Gift showed that he had married a girl who could love someone forever. Scott Richards allows us to share in the warmth of a family bound together by the transcendent miracle of love, Christmas after Christmas, as the decades pass up to the present day. Zanna's life will inspire you to keep alive your own family traditions, to share those loving moments with your children and grandchildren for years to come.Richards, Scott is the author of 'Zanna's Gift A Life In Christmases', published 2004 under ISBN 9780765312372 and ISBN 0765312379.