A family Christmas
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.
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New York :
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c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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.
