This is a beautifully illustrated children's story about how an ordinary kid goat becomes a Christmas kid. After his mother is driven into the wilderness because of a sad custom, a kid goat called Gili is forced to make sense of the world without her love and guidance. He struggles to be kind and good, but everything changes after strangers arrive to share his stable. Before he knows it, he becomes a witness to a series of life-changing events.

James Fitzjames Stephen was a distinguished jurist, a codifier of the law in England and India, and the judge in the ill-fated Maybrick case; a serious and prolific journalist, a pillar of the Saturday Review and the Pall Mall Gazette; and in Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873) the hard-hitting assailant of John Stuart Mill. Fitzjames's younger brother Leslie was founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and father of Virginia Woolf. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, by his brother Leslie Stephen (1895) is the biography of one...