[7][8] During the 30s, Tazewell wrote scripts for radio programs, including Downbeat on Murder for the Columbia Workshop.
[10] It was adapted several times for film and radio,[11] most notably as a musical TV drama for the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1969.
The heartwarming tale, written in just three days, is about a small boy's adjustment to being an angel in heaven and his gift to the holy infant.
[12] He wrote other children's books including The Small One, which The Walt Disney Company adapted into the animated short of the same name in 1978, six years after his death.
Previously, a shorter adaptation narrated by Bob Keeshan had been annually shown on the CBS children's daytime television show Captain Kangaroo.