Little Mo's Mud Pies

Little Mo's Mud Pies is a story about a 6 year old girl who decides to make mud pies, sell them and give the money to the Priest at the Parish she and her parents attend, for orphans that the church is helping. She encounters a man who looks like Santa Claus, has a miniature dachsund that changes colors, has wooden butterflies on his suspenders that become real, then turn back into wood again, and he has a white walking stick with a wooden owl on the top that also becomes real, talks to the little girl, then becomes wood again.
He helps her with her pies and has an impact upon her mother, father and the Parish Priest.