Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Center Street; 1 edition (October 29, 2008)
ISBN-10: 1599950731
ISBN-13: 978-1599950730

Dr. Christopher Ringle is the last person you’d expect to find moonlighting as Santa Claus at the mall on the day after Thanksgiving. But it is there that he meets a young man named Molar Alan, who desperately needs a new perspective on the underlying value of Christmas. Dr. Ringle recruits Mo and his older brother as volunteers at a nearby children’s hospital for the holiday season. At the hospital, Mo is tasked to help bring holiday cheer to the young cancer patients on the fifth floor. His biggest challenge is befriending a decidedly angry girl who is so embarrassed by her scarred appearance that she hides her face behind the safety of a paper bag.

“The Paper Bag Christmas is the rare kind of story that makes your eyes teary while your heart smiles. I was truly moved.” (Jason Wright, ‘New York Times’ bestselling author of ‘Christmas Jars’ and ‘The Wednesday Letters’ )

Molar and his older brother, Aaron think they are too old to go see Santa. With the insistence of their father wanting to keep the tradition, they reluctantly go to visit Santa at the mall. As they present Santa with their extensive lists of all the latest and popular toys, they soon find out that this Santa is different from what they expected.

This Santa happens to be a friend of their father’s and both have an important lesson they went to get across to the boys by helping the boys learn the real reasons of Christmas, while bringing friendship and joy to the young terminally-ill young patients’ lives. The boys must come and help as Dr Ringle’s elves at the children’s hospital for the weeks prior to Christmas.

Alan meets one of the patients, Katrina. Katrina believes that she is ugly and no one would ever want to see her face so she wears a paper bag each time he comes to visit. The Christmas pageant approaches and both children have specific ideas of what part if any they should play. Whoever heard of a fourth wise man or an ugly angel? Molar creates a plan of his own aided by the prettiest girl to make it a Christmas pageant that will never be forgotten. You will never look at a Paper Bag the same way again!

This novel helps us take a step back from Christmas commercialism and look at what is really important. It invites a touching message into our hearts.

About the Author.. Click on Kevin’s Photo to learn more…

Kevin Alan Milne earned an MBA at Pennsylvania State University. Born in Portland, Oregon, Milne grew up in the nearby quiet country town of Sherwood, Oregon, where he currently resides with his wife and five children. This is his first novel.

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