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Cover of The Longest Night, with the Little Lights gathered around an empty cradle-lantern in snowy Lantern Hollow Christmas 2026
The Little Lights of Lantern Hollow · Book Five

The Longest Night

the LOVE book Ages 3–7

For: Waiting for Christmas

On the Longest Night, Pip brings stars, Ruby brings gifts, Sunny brings songs, and Wick brings a table. Each good thing makes Lantern Hollow warmer, but the night still feels long. Then the littlest Light leads them beyond the village, where an old empty cradle-lantern waits in the snow. A gentle Christian Christmas story about making room, coming close, and the Light who came near first.

What it’s for

For the child who knows Christmas is more than presents and lights, but is still learning how to make room for the true Light.

The word it leaves

Every Little Light gives your child one small word to keep. This one is

LOVE

making room and coming close

You don’t have to teach it. The story hands it over, and children carry it out on their own — into the dark, the meltdown, the moment they need it.

Tucked in the back, like a gift
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.”
John 1:14

One verse per book — never a billboard. A Christian family finds it and feels fed; every other family reads a beautiful story and never feels preached at.

Not because they had brought enough. Because the Great Light had come near first.

Part of the series

The Little Lights of Lantern Hollow

Every Little Light shines a little differently. So does every child. Collect the calm — one feeling, one word, at a time.

The first five Lights are gathered here. See the whole series →

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