The Story of Holly and Ivy is a Christmas story illustrated by a two time Caldecott award winner, Barbara Cooney. Holly is a Christmas doll, who wants nothing more than to belong to a little girl. Ivy is an orphan girl who wants so much to have a home to go to that she invents one and sets out for it on her own. Mr Jones is a kind police officer who's wife longs for a child... the ending of the story may not be surprising but it is startlingly sweet none the less.