The Story of Holly and Ivy Quotes

“Ivy, Holly, and Mr. and Mrs. Jones all have one Christmas wish. Ivy, an orphan, wishes for a real home and sets out in search of the grandmother she’s sure she can find.”

“Orphaned Ivy finds her Christmas wish fulfilled with the help of a lonely couple and a doll named Holly.”

“This is a charming little Christmas story about a six-year-old orphan named Ivy who is searching for her (nonexistent) grandmother, a beautiful little Christmas wish ...”

“When their paths cross and their quest to be together unfolds, a surprising array of many struggling folk’s Christmas wishes come true.”

“Ivy was the only orphan at St. Agnes’s who had no one to go to on Christmas Eve. But she pretended she had a grandmother, and she wished her wish very hard...”

“In the little market town of Aylesbury, Mrs. Jones, the policeman’s wife, was wishing too, as she trimmed her tiny tree and decorated her house...”

“And Holly, a beautiful golden-haired, brown-eyed doll stood with arms outstretched in the toy-shop window, wishing to be bought...”

“It seemed impossible that so many wishes could ever come true, what with the horrid old stuffed owl making dire threats and Peter losing the shop key _ but , as you will see, wishes sometimes do come true.”

“Outside in the street it was snowing, but the toy-shop window was lit and warm _ it had been lit all night. The tops showed their glinting colors, the balls their bands of red and yellow and blue; the trains were ready to run round and round.”

“Enter into the world of Holly and Ivy. A girl and a doll living in two different worlds both wanting the same thing...to be loved.”

“Lonely young Ivy runs away from her orphanage during Christmas, while spirited but unsold doll Holly waits in her toy store window for the child who will give her existence meaning,”