Hello, this is Alan, your storyteller, welcoming you to the Story Home.

And today, as the holidays are upon us, we have a magical tale called the Lucky Christmas

Penny, full of the holiday spirit. It is written by your storyteller, Alan Schofield. And if you go to the Story Home YouTube channel, you can watch the special movie tale of the Lucky Christmas Penny.

Now, let our story begin.

Once upon a time, in a cold and dark December, the moon was sleeping and the earth was dreaming

of Christmas.

And somewhere in that busy world was a small boy looking up at the moon. And though he lived in a gray little house, with a crack down the driveway and a few broken

windows, there was as much hope in this one boy as there were stars in the night sky.

Mama, he said, is there a kind of magic in the world that can make an impossible thing

come true?

I don't know, said his mother, but if there's anyone who can find it, I bet it will

be you.

So he took his lucky penny and planted it in the ground and said,

My lucky penny, grow into a Christmas tree finer than any. That night he dreamed that

he flew among the stars and visited the smiling moon.

And Christmas appeared one letter at a time,

See for the colored lights on the tree.

H for the happy times that will be,

R reading stories of faraway kings.

I, inside where the tea kettle sings.

S for Santa, plump and rosy, T tucked in under covers so cozy.

M for mother, the one we love. A, all the magic that comes from above, and S for sleep and a long winter's nap.

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