Silver packages : an Appalachian Christmas story /
by Cynthia Rylant ; paintings by Chris K. Soentpiet.
- New York : Orchard Books, 1997.
- 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
"A Richard Jackson book"--Half t.p.
Every year at Christmas a rich man rides a train through Appalachia and throws gifts to the poor children who are waiting, in order to repay a debt he owes the people who live there.