Told in three time frames, this is the story of a modern-day grandmother telling her granddaughter of how she first heard the story of Queen Esther from her family rabbi in Vienna on the eve of WW II.  Soon after the rabbi begins the story of the brave queen, soldiers come to arrest him. The young girl begs for the rabbi to finish his story, and the soldiers allow him to do so. When the tale is over, the soldiers permit him to send the children home. But when the children turn to wave goodbye, the rabbi had vanished in the snowflakes, safe from harm, saved by the miracle of a story from long ago. 
Ages 7-10.