The day before Christmas
By: Eve Bunting ; paintings by Beth Peck.
Contributors: Peck, Beth, ill.
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Christmas -- Fiction; Ballet -- Fiction; Grandfathers -- Fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Description: Four years after the death of her mother, seven-year-old Allie goes with her grandfather to a performance of "The Nutcracker" on Christmas Eve, hears about the special day he had with her mother going to her first "Nutcracker," and shares his loving memory of her.