The Christmas Box (ISBN 9781566840286) is an American novel written by Richard Paul Evans and self-published in 1993.
That same year, the book was made into a television film of the same title starring Richard Thomas and Maureen O'Hara.
In The Christmas Box a woman mourns the loss of her child at the base of an angel monument.
The book gives a description of the monument, which is of a childlike angel with upturned palms and outstretched wings.
As of June 2014, over 120 Christmas Box Angels have been erected, mostly in the United States.