![]() ![]() ![]() Miss Shepherd, the head of the home, cannot take Ivy home with her, so she decides to send her to an infants' orphanage, a train ride away. Agnes orphanage has closed for Christmas, and all the children except Ivy have been dispatched to various homes for the holiday. ![]() The story has been adapted into a stage production by the same name and a 1991 animated Christmas television program entitled The Wish That Changed Christmas. The story treats the simultaneous events of wishing for love, in Ivy, a young orphaned girl, and Holly, a Christmas doll. On first publication it was illustrated by Adrienne Adams, but later editions were illustrated by Barbara Cooney the British Puffin edition is illustrated by Sheila Bewley. The Story of Holly and Ivy is a 1958 children's book written by Rumer Godden. ![]()
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