Why read What Child Is This??

Book cover of What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story

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Sixteen-year-old Matt knows not to expect anything of life, or people or Christmas. But his foster sister, Katie, hasn't yet learnt not to hope. When all the foster kids make their Christmas wishes, Katie asks for a family. Matt reckons no-one gets a family for Christmas - do they?

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Why read it?

1 author picked What Child Is This? as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ketsia Lessard

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I had read this book as a teenager and picked it up again last December. It had been so long since I’d read it that it felt like a brand-new novel. Cooney’s Christmas tale is a heartwarming yet realistic take at how foster children experience the holidays.

Here, we meet a foster child named Katie who believes she will get a family for Christmas when she takes part in a program for disadvantaged children who receive a present from generous strangers.

It is a short yet powerful novel I will now read every Christmas vacation.

From Ketsia's 3 favorite reads in 2023.