Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

A little sister, Elisa, does not stop crying. Her noise is nonstop and loud. No matter which neighbors came by the apartment - with gifts and advice - Elisa keeps on crying. Her parents promise Elisa different vacations, treasures, and sweets but nothing worked. When grandma comes to help, she helps Elisa move her legs like a bicycle. Elisa expresses an amazing fart, and the whole family and neighborhood falls fast to sleep.

This Christmas narrative is a moving visual narrative without words. A hungry, old woman leaves her home to find food in the snow but is sad to give up her treasured accordion for sale when no one gives her money for playing music in the village street. She experiences a theft in the streets and then observes vandalism in the church by a man on a motorcycle. The woman reassembles the nativity scene in the church for Christmas and later earns the mercy and support from the participants when she collapses in the snow. This story of Christmas has a surprise ending (A wordless book).