The hardest times can teach the greatest lessons.
During the 1930s, eight-year-old, Delia, along with her four siblings and mother, leave the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma. Taking only a few belongings and using the last of the money to buy a two-headed axe, Delia's mother travels to California to find work in the agricultural fields—with tomatoes, grapes, cotton—anything that would support her family during the Great Depression. While confronting severe poverty, Delia brings to life her mother's morals: hard work, sharing, and the universal need to be loved.
Firewood and Christmas Potatoes is based on true events and will take the young reader to a time when approximately three million Americans (including children) were once treated harshly as they journeyed to a different state to begin a new life. Children will experience the life of a child similar in age who encountered challenges and embraced hardship by allowing their heart to love all.
Firewood and Christmas Potatoes is a heartwarming story that will become a family favorite during the holiday season.
“Firewood and Christmas Potatoes” is a true account of the experiences my mother and grandmother encountered nearly one hundred years ago during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. It is educational, historical and embraces Christian values.
“Firewood and Christmas Potatoes” is a children’s story, but all ages can gain a blessing from its life lessons of compassion, resilience and love of family.
“I have not much that I can bring,
no turtledoves, no golden rings.
But what I give to you this day,
is heaven’s sweet love from far away.”