Adapted from McCutcheon’s folk song of the same name, this nearly two-decade-old book about the Christmas Truce of WWI is still as affecting and inspiring as it was when it was first published. Depicting the incredible real-life event that saw a small number of German and British troops calling a temporary ceasefire to celebrate a … Continue reading Holiday Book Countdown, Day 23: CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES (John McCutcheon, illus. by Henri Sørenson)