''The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey'' is a 2007 British film scripted and directed by Bill Clark. It was adapted from a 1995 book of the same name, written by Susan Wojciechowski and illustrated by P. J. Lynch, from which the film was

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The 91-minute film directed by Bill Clark starred

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and

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. Among other players were Benjamin Eli, Jack Montgomery and

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. It played at eight film festivals including the Gloria Film Festival at Salt Lake City where it was named "Best Film – 2007". It was released on DVD in the US later that year, in the UK and the Netherlands 2008, and in Germany 2011. In December 2015 it received its national UK TV premier on C5.

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The 32-page

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was written by Susan Wojciechowski, illustrated by P. J. Lynch, and published by

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in 1995 (). One newspaper called it "the story of a gloomy woodcutter who gradually recovers his ability to find joy in life" and reported sales in the United States exceeding one million copies. For his part in that collaboration, Lynch won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best

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illustration by a British subject. According to the retrospective citation, woodcarver Toomey accepts the job of creating nativity figurines for a widow and her son, and thereby resolves long-held grief for his own wife and child. Walker's American division

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published a U.S. edition within the calendar year (

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PZ7.W8183 Ch 1995; )."The Christmas miracle of Jonathan Toomey"
(first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-09-03.

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