Readers loved Jerry Bledsoe's The Angel Doll, the 1950s story of 10-year-old Whitey Black, his love for his little sister Sandy, a victim of polio, and his quest to fulfill her Christmas wish for an angel doll. Critics proclaimed it "a gem of a story", and "a modern Christmas classic".A Gift of Angels takes up the story nearly half a century later.
It not only tells how The Angel Doll came about, but how it set the narrator, now the possessor of the doll, on his own quest to find his long-missing friend Whitey so that he can solve a Christmas mystery and return the doll to its rightful place.
An endearing story of friendship, love and giving, A Gift of Angels is sure to find a place in readers' hearts, even if they haven't read The Angel Doll.
Critics proclaimed Jerry Bledsoe's bestseller, The Angel Doll, "an instant classic" and "a family treasure." It sold more than 110,000 copies in hardcover, was excerpted in Good Housekeeping, selected by The Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and Crossings Book Club, and was published in Germany and Japan. The mass market paperback will be released by St. Martin's Press in the fall of 1999, and a feature film is in production for release at Christmas 1999.
In The Angel Doll, we met Whitey Black, who despite his poverty sets out to get an angel doll for his four-year-old sister because she loves The Littlest Angel story so much. Although his sister doesn't live to see her doll, we learn of another angel who many years later gives angel dolls to children in terminal hospital wards each Christmas.
In this deeply moving sequel to The Angel Doll, Bledsoe tells the rest of the story and brings the characters full-circle to present day. A story of friendship, love, and giving, it is certain to bring tears to the eyes of all who read it -- even if they never heard of The Angel Doll.
