Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story (Dramatic Reading)

What happens when a boy from the West Coast arrives in Manhattan on Christmas Eve and discovers the city has been waiting for him? Nicholas steps off a train into a magical New York where the Guggenheim's spires are goblin towers, Trinity Church becomes a bishop, and Madison Square's fairy queen has been holding a special gift for three hundred years. Anne Carroll Moore's 1924 Newbery Honor book weaves together the real Manhattan of the 1920s with an enchanted city that exists alongside it, visible only to those with the right kind of wonder. As Nicholas wanders from Grand Central to the Met, from the Woolworth Building to Trinity Church, he encounters historical figures and fairy folk, each revealing another layer of the city's secret history. This is a book for children who have ever looked at a city and wondered what stories its streets could tell. It captures that specific childhood feeling of walking through the ordinary world and suspecting, just beneath the surface, something magical is watching back.