Katie: The Girl Who Grew Wings: A heartwarming Christmas story of a little girl from Wilkes-Barre, PA whose shoulders kept growing

This story begins with a toddler named Katie, who then grows up to be a special young woman with special gifts above all others. Her love of Christmas trains and beautiful music was only surpassed by her love of planes and all air vehicles. Superman had become her favorite airplane. Every year after Christmas, she saw the huge real Christmas tree and everything else disappear. She would go to bed for a nap, and when she would awaken, everything would be gone—the tree, the train, all the toys, the helicopters, the big and small planes at the tree platform airport. Worse than that, even the platform where everything was displayed was gone. But, the next year, it was back. And each year, Katie’s smiles came back. Christmas at home was a great day every year and it stayed that way for days after so much so that it seemed like it would never end each and every year. Nonetheless, it was about to all go away at the end of just the little lady’s second Christmas season,. Just a few days had passed and all platform items gone. Yet, she got over it. That year, mom and dad took her for a special visit to a Christmas wizard who was also an angel. The wizard had a huge platform with trains and flying objects even though it was already a few weeks after Christmas. It was before Katie had even turned two-years old. In this visit, she gained more real information than a child her age should have been able to handle… Yet, she was able to manage the truth well, for over five more years. Then, in her seventh year, when she reached the age of reason, she finally had figured out the Christmas mystery. No matter what, no longer was there any sadness at the end of the Christmas season. This year, like every other year, she was ready for it all to go away but the Christmas angel had told her “Fear Not!” No longer did she care about going to sleep one particular day or night after Christmas, and poof, the morning would present a big void. It was her year Just like she knew it would; it happened. This time, there was not an icicle or even a tiny piece of platform snow anywhere to make her think it was not just a silly dream—like how it was explained every other year. This year, mom and dad knew that Katie knew the secret and she promised them she would not tell her younger two brothers. Katie had grown; still loved Christmas; but she was changed by the visit with the angel and this was the big year. On her seventh birthday, when she woke up, she got a big surprise. She did not know what it was all about but she had been assured that it would be good. For five years she had felt the muscular nubs in her back. A wizard had made a great prediction that the muscles in her back that seemed to be outgrowths of the scapula, could support huge wings. This discovery over time would become the most significant thing that would happen in Katie’s life until the day her gifts were full grown. Her story is what this book is all about. This is great family reading. A real family is highlighted in this fine uplifting story. Thank you for reading it. You can read this book to all your children and their friends and they will love it. Enjoy! Have a great and magical day. I have a feeling that the tree, the toys, and the toot-toot and perhaps even more, will all be back next year if not sooner.