{"product_id":"a-christmas-cuento-sydney-dudikoff-9781973407492","title":"A Christmas Cuento","description":"Cuentos are akin to Folk Tales and passed down from one generation to the next within a community. They encompass allegories, fables, fairy tales, and trickster stories.\u003cbr\u003eUnlike original literary works, cuentos are shaped by the storytellers themselves, often adapted to suit the cultural and social context of the audience. For instance, cuentos may incorporate contemporary figures such as Santa Claus to resonate with a modern audience.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Christmas Cuento\u003c\/i\u003e, pianist Zach St. Johns inherits his great-grandparents' farm after his siblings, Joel and Rachel, disavow the inheritance. Zach moves from Chicago to Arizona in December to find a ramshackle Victoria without electricity and only cold water. With an advance and help from neighbors, he starts renovations. In the attic, he discovers his brother's journal annotating their Christmas twenty years earlier. He is entertained by the three Christmas Cuentos Grandpa Leo narrates.\u003cbr\u003eThe Cuentos evolve around classical Christmas characters: Santa, Winter Wizard, Arctic Fairies, and how snowfall transforms an arid land into a prosperous farming community. The Cuentos end unresolved, and it is up to the children to resolve them. Twenty years later, a blocked memory returns to Zach, and he realizes this was a Magical Christmas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sydney Dudikoff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1973407493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781973407492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d","brand":"Sydney Dudikoff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486526550271,"sku":"9781973407492","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c13e3de-13ea-4877-9a35-e6d4e6bc94d8.jpg?v=1778055804","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-christmas-cuento-sydney-dudikoff-9781973407492","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}