Description: Contents A Message from the Illustrator 1 1 A Visit from St Nicholas 3 By Clement Clarke Moore 2 The Christmas airy of Strasbourg 9 Retold by J. Stirling Coyne 3 The ir Tree 15 By Hans Christian Andersen 4 The Nativity 27 From the King James Bible 5 Papa Panov's Special Christmas 31 Retold by Leo Tolstoy 6 Good King Wenceslas 39 By John Mason Neale 7 The Elves and the Shoemaker 43 By the Brothers Grimm 8 An extract from AChristmas Carol 47 By Charles Dickens 9 Why the Evergreen Trees Never Lose their Leaves 53 By Florence Holbrook 10 An extract from The Wind in the Willows 57 By Kenneth Grahame 11 The Snow Queen 71 By Hans Christian Andersen 12 The Twelve Days of Christmas 111 Traditional 13 Old ezziwig's Party 117 By Charles Dickens 14 Professor Branestawm's Christmas Tree 123 By Norman Hunter 15 In the Bleak Midwinter 131 By Christina Rossetti 16 The Selfish Giant 135 By Oscar Wilde 17 An extract from Little Women 14 By Louisa May Alcott 18 The Christmas Truce 165 From the New York Times 19 In the Week When Christmas Comes 169 By Eleanor Farjeon 20 Letter to Susy 173 By Mark Twain 21 A Kidnapped Santa Claus 177 By L. Frank Baum 22 Yes, virginia, There is a Santa Claus 195 By Francis Pharcellus Church 23 The Little Match-Seller 199 By Hans Christian Andersen 24 The Story of the Christ-Child 205 By Elizabeth Harrison About the Authors and Stories 214

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