It is the season for holiday fiction, and The Paper Bag Christmas by Kevin Milne is a heartwarming short novel about two brothers –Aaron and Molar– who are occupied with adding toys to their Christmas wish lists when they are recruited to volunteer at a hospital in the weeks before the holiday. Though they are initially not happy with volunteering, their experiences visiting sick children are amusing and touching and the boys eventually learn the true meaning of both friendship and of Christmas. This is a sweet story that I thoroughly enjoyed.