* TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION *

“A sweet tale, a cross between
 It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol.”
   —USA Today

”An unabashedly sentimental memoir…charming.”
-- Publisher’s Weekly

“A heartwarming story.” 
—Newsday

“A touching tale fragrant with the season … a special treat for those who love Christmas trees.”
—Tampa Tribune

Every holiday season for nearly twenty years, Billy Romp, his wife, and their three young children have spent a month living in a tiny camper and selling Christmas trees on Jane Street in the West Village of New York City. They arrive from Vermont the day after Thanksgiving and leave just in time to make it home for Christmas morning—and for a few weeks they transform a corner of the Big Apple into a small town that might be the setting for a classic Capra film.

This very special tenth anniversary edition of CHRISTMAS ON JANE STREET (Harper; Trade Paperback; $12.95/ 154 pages; On-Sale: November 4, 2008) is Romp’s touching story of one unforgettable year in the Christmas tree business. The book now comes in a beautiful new package and with a new afterword by Romp and his co-author, Wanda Urbanska, author of Simple Living and Moving to a Small Town.

CHRISTMAS ON JANE STREET is about the transformative power of love—of parent and child, of merchant and customer, of stranger and neighbor. One neighbor strings a power line from his basement to their festively decorated van; another provides them with a phone line; still others drop off spare keys to nearby apartments so they’ll have a place to take a hot shower. The local meter maid “forgets” to ticket them for parking violations; Broadway producers turn up with theater tickets, and the Romps return the city’s generosity by giving trees and wreaths to homes in need. The perfect, heart-warming Christmas story, CHRISTMAS ON JANE STREET is about the lasting and profound difference that one person can make in a family and one family can make in a community.

About the authors:

BILLY ROMP, his wife, and their three children live in rural Salisbury, Vermont - when they’re not spreading Christmas cheer in Manhattan. WANDA URBANSKA is the coauthor of Simple Living and Moving to a Small Town. She lives with her son in Mount Airy, North Carolina.