The Kingfisher Book Of Classic Christmas Stories

Christmas stories past and present are packed into this jolly collection. It's a feast of traditional folktales and contemporary classics -- from Brer Rabbit and Ramona and the Three Wise Persons to stories about scrumptious Christmas cookies, gift-laden golden ships, and the little girl with a present for Santa Claus ... Book jacket.

A collection of eighteen stories about Christmas by favorite children's authors.

This festive anthology of 14 Christmas classics from around the world includes "The Nutcracker," tales by Louisa May Alcott and L.M. Montgomery, and an excerpt from Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol." Each story features an Introduction by Whybrow and is beautifully illustrated. Full color.

A well-respected writer and editor's memoir of childhood Christmases set in the sometimes harsh but always captivating landscape of South Dakota. Wreaths and holly, fruitcakes and mistletoe, ornaments and snowflakes, St. Nick and Scrooge's humbug, Joseph and Mary, a young child in a manger and magi from the East. These words automatically stir up the season of Christmas and invoke memories of family and friends and hope and faith. By turns sweet and comic, sentimental and serious, the former editor of First Things magazine shares his reflections of the mad joys and wild emotions of the season while growing up on the South Dakota plains.

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Covering 2,000 years, this two-volume set is the first encyclopedia devoted to Christian writers and books. In addition to an overview of the Christian literature, this encyclopedia includes more than 40 essays on the principal genres of Christian literature and more than 400 bio-bibliographical essays describing the principal writers and their works.

Young readers are invited to celebrate the season with Christmas stories from such authors as Lynne Reid Banks and Michael Rosen.