The Paper Bag Christmas - and a Giveaway

This is not a book that I was sent to review. I won it, and when I got it in the mail and looked it over, thought it might not be one I would enjoy. I was wrong. I loved it. I laughed and cried. I have read many Christmas books in my lifetime, and love to read them, but this one really gets a hold of the reader and shows the true meaning of Christmas. A must-read for sure.

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.

Though this book is fiction, I found it to be a very touching story. I laughed through the hospital Christmas pageant, and found myself crying as two very different kids gave their own unique Christmas gifts to God. I am highly recommending it, and after checking with Valerie from Hachette books, am doing a giveaway, courtesy of her. Check below for details.

About the author:

Kevin Milne was born in Portland, Oregon on June 13, 1973. Nearly eighteen years later he graduated from high school in Sherwood, Oregon, a small country town outside of Portland. From there it was off to college, where he studied anything and everything that caught his interest.

In his first two years as an undergraduate student he changed majors almost a dozen times, studying such varied fields as film, journalism, communications, philosophy, pre-dentistry, advertising, pre-law, pre-medicine, political science, and German, then finally earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. Just about the only thing he didn’t study was business, which, ironically, is what he chose to pursue in graduate school, earning an MBA at Penn State University in 2000.

Today, Kevin is a business professional by day, an author by night, and a husband and father around the clock. He and his wife, Rebecca, were married in Washington DC in 1995. They now reside in Kevin’s hometown of Sherwood, Oregon, where they are the proud parents of five children: Mikayla, Kamry, Mary, Emma, & Kyler (aka "the boy").

The Giveaway:


I am giving away more than one copy of this book, depending on the amount of entries I get. 1-5 entries, one copy. 6-10, 2 copies. 7-15, 3 copies. 16-20, 4 copies, and anything over 20, 5 copies.

US and Canada entries only, no PO boxes.

To enter, tell something you would like this Christmas for a gift.

I will pick the winners a week from today, December 23.