The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey is a 2007 British film scripted and directed by Bill Clark.[1][2] It was adapted from a 1995 book of the same name, written by Susan Wojciechowski and illustrated by P. J. Lynch, from which the film was adapted.

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
Directed byBill Clark
Written byBill Clark
Produced byPhilippe Martinez
StarringTom Berenger
Joely Richardson
Lia Williams
Jenny O'Hara
Ronald Pickup
Release date
2007
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8 million

Film

The 91-minute film directed by Bill Clark starred Tom Berenger, Joely Richardson, Saoirse Ronan and Luke Ward-Wilkinson. Among other players were Benjamin Eli, Jack Montgomery and Jenny O'Hara. It played at eight film festivals including the Gloria Film Festival at Salt Lake City where it was named "Best Film – 2007". It was released on DVD in the US later that year, in the UK and the Netherlands 2008, and in Germany 2011. In December 2015 it received its national UK TV premier on C5.

Book

The 32-page children's picture book was written by Susan Wojciechowski, illustrated by P. J. Lynch, and published by Walker Books in 1995 (ISBN 978-0-7445-4007-9). One newspaper called it "the story of a gloomy woodcutter who gradually recovers his ability to find joy in life" and reported sales in the United States exceeding one million copies. For his part in that collaboration, Lynch won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.[3] According to the retrospective citation, woodcarver Toomey accepts the job of creating nativity figurines for a widow and her son, and thereby resolves long-held grief for his own wife and child.[3]

Walker's American division Candlewick Press published a U.S. edition within the calendar year (Library of Congress Classification PZ7.W8183 Ch 1995; ISBN 978-1-56402-320-9).[4]

See also

References
  1. "The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey". dove.org. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  2. Lyons, Nick (2 November 2007). "The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey". DVD Talk. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  3. (Greenaway Winner 1995). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
  4. "The Christmas miracle of Jonathan Toomey" (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-09-03.


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