A family Christmas
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Presents a collection of favorite holiday stories and excerpts including "The night before Christmas," by Clement C. Moore; "Little Tree," by e.e. cummings; and "A Christmas carol," by Charles Dickens. Full description
Table of Contents:
- We need a little Christmas /
- Jerry Herman
- Letter to Santa, & Introduction /
- Caroline Kennedy
- The gracious time (from Hamlet) /
- William Shakespeare
- Psalm 8
- Credo /
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Letter to Fred Allen /
- Groucho Marx
- Relative pronouns /
- E. B. White
- Keeping Christmas /
- Henry van Dyke
- White Christmas /
- Irving Berlin
- Deck the halls
- (Welsh traditional carol)
- Under the mistletoe /
- Countee Cullen
- Messiah (Christmas portions) /
- Mark Doty
- Little tree /
- E. E. Cummings
- The Christmas tree /
- Emma Lazarus
- Christmas trees: a Christmas circular letter /
- Robert Frost
- A Christmas tree /
- Piri Thomas
- Christmas party at the South Danbury Church /
- Donald Hall
- The loudest voice /
- Grace Paley
- Peace and goodwill to managers /
- George Bernard Shaw
- The old scout: the season of letter-perfect families /
- Garrison Keillor
- The computer's first Christmas card /
- Edwin Morgan
- Lunch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668
- (1984)
- The holly and the ivy
- (English traditional carol)
- Santa Claus is comin' to town /
- Haven Gillespie and J. Fred Coots
- A visit from St. Nicholas /
- Clement Clarke Moore
- Is there a Santa Claus? ("Yes, Virginia") /
- Francis P. Church
- Letter to Michelle Rochon /
- John F. Kennedy
- Letter from Santa Claus /
- Mark Twain
- Santa's stocking /
- Katharine Lee Bates
- Mr. Edwards Meets Santa Claus (from Little House on the Prairie) /
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A Chaparral Christmas gift /
- O. Henry
- Santa Claus /
- Sonny Boy Williamson
- Saint Nicholas /
- Marianne Moore
- Saint Nicholas (from The Christmas encyclopedia) /
- William D. Crump
- Six to eight black men /
- David Sedaris
- Santaland 2006 (from Santa guide for the Macy's Santa)
- Children of the world v. Santa Claus /
- Andrew J. McClurg
- The deadweight loss of Christmas (from American Economic Review) /
- Joel Waldfogel
- NORAD Tracks Santa (online tracking; also send Santa an email) /
- www.noradsanta.org
- Father Christmas executed /
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- Christmas in Hollis /
- Run-D.M.C.
- Away in a manger /
- William James Kirkpatrick
- Isaiah 9:2-6
- Luke 2: 1-20
- Pedida da la posada : asking for lodging
- The stable /
- Gabriela Mistral
- The barn /
- Elizabeth Coatsworth
- Presepio /
- Joseph Brodsky
- The puppy who wanted a boy /
- Jane Thayer
- Christmas superstitions (from Christmas in the mountains) /
- Hubert J. Davis
- Christmas Eve, Nochebuena /
- Cesar Vallejo
- Carol of the birds, El cant dels ocells
- (Old Spanish carol from Catalonia)
- Silent Night /
- Joseph Mohr & Franz Gruber
- Joy to the world /
- Isaac Watts & G. F. Handel
- Christmas sparrow /
- Billy Collins
- Christmas Day in the morning /
- Pearl S. Buck
- Christmas Day at sea /
- Joseph Conrad
- Christmas /
- Vladimir Nabokov
- A Christmas memory /
- Truman Capote
- Blond /
- Natasha Trethewey
- All I want for Christmas is you /
- Mariah Carey & Walter Afanasieff
- Hark! The herald angels sing /
- Charles Wesley, George Whitefield & Martin Madan, and Felix Mendelssohn
- Peace /
- Henry Vaughan
- Letter to John Hancock /
- George Washington
- Christmas bells /
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Christmas truce, World War I (from The London Times)
- Letter to Tommy, World War II /
- Lt. Col. Ralph Noonan
- Telegram to the U.S. Ambassador, Moscow /
- W. Averell Harriman
- A Christmas sermon on peace /
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Christmas e-mails from Iraq /
- Capt. Trent Weston & Sgt. Mike Mira
- Happy Xmas (war is over) /
- John Lennon & Yoko Ono
- We wish you a Merry Christmas
- (Traditional)
- All you that to feasting and mirth are inclined
- (Anonymous English Medieval)
- "Amos 'n' Andy" Christmas show fails test of time (from The New York Times) /
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Christmas in Qatar /
- Calvin Trillin
- Christmas laughter /
- Nikki Giovanni
- Penalty for keeping Christmas
- Grace defended /
- Cotton Mather
- From Martha Washington's kitchen
- Incidents in the life of a slave girl /
- Harriet A. Jacobs
- Christmas in the olden time /
- Sir Walter Scott
- The second of the three spirits (from A Christmas carol) /
- Charles Dickens
- Salvation Army's bounty (from the New York Times)
- Christmas every day /
- William Dean Howells
- Christmas in the tenements /
- Theodore Dreiser
- Un poquito de tu amor /
- Sandra Cisneros
- Here we come a-wassaling
- O come all ye faithful /
- Frederick Oakeley & William Thomas Brooke and John Francis Wade
- Matthew 2:1-12
- The oxen /
- Thomas Hardy
- A Christmas carol /
- Christina Rossetti
- Carol of the Brown King /
- Langston Hughes
- Christmas morning /
- Elizabeth Madox Roberts
- The gift of the Magi /
- O. Henry
- The real gifts parents can give to children /
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Dreams of a black Christmas /
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Christmas /
- St. Augustine
- The first Nowell
- Winter wonderland /
- Richard B. Smith and Felix Bernard
- All's Noël that ends Noël /
- Ogden Nash
- Christ climbed down /
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Remembrance is sufficient /
- W. H. Auden
- Blow, blow, thou winter wind (from As you like it) /
- William Shakespeare.