Winter Candle

Hardcover Synopsis When each family at the diverse Juniper Court apartment complex needs something to light up the dark of winter, the stumpy, lumpy candle provides a glow brighter than the fanciest taper, revealing the true spirit of each holiday it illuminates   Author Jeron Ashford works as a librarian in a graduate school, but her real love is for children's literature. Her first picture book, Yesterday I Had the Blues, won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and was featured on PBS' Between the Lions. She lives with her cat outside of Philadelphia.  Illustrator Stacey Schuett has written and illustrated dozens of picture books, winning many awards. She lives in Northern California with her family. Praise "What do you do when your celebration needs a candle, but yours are all gone? You ask your neighbors if they have one to spare. And then, when the next neighbor needs a candle, you pass it on. A multicultural assortment of neighbors passes a squat, lumpy candle from apartment to apar