Christmas on Jane Street: A True Story

A lovely lovingly illustrated little gem of a book this delightful tenth anniversary edition of a beloved Christmas classic tells the poignant inspiring story of an unforgettable family that brings the Christmas spirit to life on a street corner in Manhattan and the warm wide circle of friends who have welcomed them to the neighborhood. Every holiday season for nearly twenty years Billy Romp his wife and their three children have spent nearly a month living in a tiny camper and selling Christmas trees on Jane Street in New York City. They arrive from Vermont the day after Thanksgiving and leave just in time to make it home for Christmas morningand for a few weeks they transform a corner of the Big Apple into a Frank Capra-esque small town alive with heartwarming holiday spirit. Christmas on Jane Street is about the transformative power of lovelove of parent and child of merchant and customer of stranger and neighbor. The ideal Christmas story it is about the lasting and profound difference that one person can make to a family and one family can make to a community.