by Katherine Paterson · Avon Camelot · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780380511440
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«Angels and Other Strangers» is Katherine Paterson's collection of Christmas stories, published by Avon Camelot in paperback (118 pages, in English).
These nine stories, set at Christmas, focus on families facing loss and loneliness: a widower takes in two children, a father searches for his runaway son, a mother faces the death of her baby, and a minister ends up in jail on Christmas Eve. Despite everything, joy, hope, and love prevail.
This 1980 edition carries the subtitle Family Christmas Stories and is cataloged as children's and young adult reading.
Aimed at young readers and families; some stories deal with grief, poverty, and conflict, so it is not intended for very young children.
Katherine Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.
