Kate Reading delivers Francine Rivers’s account of what inspired her to write THE SHOE BOX (A Christmas Story) and then sweetly transitions into the story. Timmy O’Leary is a 6-year-old foster child in the home of Mary and David Holmes. Curiously, he carries a shoe box with him everywhere. Reading projects a careful sense of wonder in each character who interacts with Timmy. The story ends with the revelation of what’s inside Timmy’s box and who is the special recipient of the box. Following this, Reading dramatically narrates the biblical account of the Christmas story from the New Living Translation. A biography of the author completes the audiobook. H.E.F. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine