| Description |
222 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Summary |
Stories, poems, carols, and recollections of Christmas by world-famous authors, with 120 illustrations by Norman Rockwell. |
| Contents |
[The First Christmas] Born in Bethlehem / St. Luke -- The Three Wise Men / St. Matthew -- The Cherry Tree Carol / Anonymous -- Some Say... / William Shakespeare -- The Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ / Christopher Smart -- A Hymn Sung As By The Shepherds / Richard Crashaw -- That Holy Thing / George MacDonald -- On the Morning of Christ's Nativity / John Milton -- A Carol for Children / Ogden Nash. |
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[Stories] The Fir Tree / Hans Christian Andersen -- A Pint of Judgment / Elizabeth Morrow -- A Miserable, Merry Christmas / Lincoln Steffens -- The Miraculous Staircase / Arthur Gordon -- Our Lady's Juggler / Anatole France -- Mr. Edwards Meets Santa Claus / Laura Ingalls Wilder -- One Christmas Eve / Langston Hughes -- Christmas Every Day / William Dean Howells -- The Gift of the Magi / O. Henry -- The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton / Charles Dickens -- My Christmas Miracle / Taylor Caldwell -- the Lengend of the Christmas Rose / Selma Lagerlöf -- A Christmas Dream, and How it Came True / Louisa May Alcott -- Down Pens / Saki -- The Worst Christmas Story / Christopher Morley. |
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[Carols] O Little Town of Bethlehem -- We Three Kings of Orient Are -- What Child is This? -- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear -- Silent Night -- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing -- Angels We Have Heard on High -- The First Nowell -- Joy to the World! -- The Twelve Days of Christmas -- O Come, All Ye Faithful -- God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen -- Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly -- Go Tell it on the Mountain -- Jingle Bells. |
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[Poems] Christmas Trees / Robert Frost -- Christmas in a Village / John Clare -- Christmas Eve in Our Village / Phyllis McGinley -- Christmas Eve at Sea / John Masefield -- A Visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore -- Christmas Greetings from a Fairy to a Child / Lewis Carroll -- Ceremonies for Christmas / Robert Herrick -- The Mahogany Tree / William Makepeace Thackeray -- The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus / Ogden Nash -- Mistletoe / Walter de la Mare -- Well, So That Is That / W. H. Auden -- Yule's Come, and Yule's Gane / Anonymous. |
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[Christmas Remembered] Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus / Francis P. Church -- Once on Christmas / Dorothy Thompson -- Christmas on a Farm in New York / Theodore Ledyard Cuyler -- Christmas in Maine / Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- A Surprise For the Teacher / Sam Levenson -- A Gift of the Heart / Norman Vincent Peale -- Christmas This Year / Booth Tarkington -- Susie's Letter From Santa / Mark Twain -- Fannie Merritt Farmer's Christmas Dinner. |
| Subject |
Christmas -- Literary collections.
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Christmas -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978.
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Rockwell, Molly.
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| ISBN |
0810915839 |
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9780810915831 |
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