The Children's Book of Christmas Stories: Edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner

By Various, Asa Don Dickinson, Ada M. Skinner

"The father of a family of assorted sizes presented a book of fairy stories he had written to a grown-up friend. 'They are good,' said he, confidently, 'for I tried them on the kids.' It is so with this delightful book of Christmas Stories. A librarian and a teacher have collected, from diverse sources, only the most popular of the Christmas tales which have already won the approval of American children. All children will read this book joyfully; and men grown tall, in whom the Christmas spirit lives, will find its pages bright with the reflection from the crackling yule-logs which have warmed the hearts of the world." -Home Progress, Volume 3, September, 1913 "With a book of this kind in one's possession, one is never at a loss to know where to turn when the inevitable request for the Christmas story comes." -The Book News Monthly, Volume 32, Part 2, September, 1913 "These stories for the 'big, middle-sized and little children' are all so saturated with the true Christmas spirit that this book is sure to be a perennial favorite of the Christmas season in household, school, and public libraries. Librarians, teachers and parents have long felt the need of just this kind of book. Strange to say, it is the only one in its field." -Kindergarten Primary Magazine, Volume 26, September, 1913 "It is an excellent idea which has been well worked out in this book - the gathering into one convenient attractive volume a collection of approved Christmas stories. The book will win the hearty approval of the children, and of their parents and teachers." -Education Magazine, September, 1913 (Note.--The stories marked with a star (*) will be most enjoyed by younger children; those marked with a dagger (+) are better suited to older children.) *Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse. By Charles Dickens *The Fir-Tree. By Hans Christian Andersen The Christmas Masquerade. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman *The Shepherds and the Angels. Adapted from the Bible +The Telltale Tile. By Olive Thorne Miller *Little Girl's Christmas. By Winnifred E. Lincoln +A Christmas Matin?e. By M. A. L. Lane *Toinette and the Elves. By Susan Coolidge The Voyage of the Wee Red Cap. By Ruth Sawyer Durand *A Story of the Christ-Child (a German Legend for Christmas Eve). As told by Elizabeth Harrison *Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas. by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Why the Chimes Rang. By Raymond McAlden *The Birds' Christmas (founded on fact). By F. E. Mann +The Little Sister's Vacation. By Winifred M. Kirkland *Little Wolff's Wooden Shoes. By Fran?ois Copp?e, adapted and translated by Alma J. Foster +Christmas in the Alley. By Olive Thorne Miller *A Christmas Star. By Katherine Pyle +The Queerest Christmas. By Grace Margaret Gallaher Old Father Christmas. By J. H. Ewing A Christmas Carol. By Charles Dickens How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats. By Elia W. Peattie The Legend of Babouscka. From the Russian Folk Tale *Christmas in the Barn. By F. Arnstein The Philanthropist's Christmas. By James Weber Linn *The First Christmas-Tree. By Lucy Wheelock The First New England Christmas. By G. L. Stone and M. G. Fickett The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner. By Charles Dickens Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six. By Anne Hollingsworth Wharton *Christmas Under the Snow. By Olive Thorne Miller Mr. Bluff's Experience of Holidays. By Oliver Bell Bunce +Master Sandy's Snapdragon. By Elbridge S. Brooks A Christmas Fairy. By John Strange Winter The Greatest of These. By Joseph Mills Hanson *Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe. By Elizabeth Harrison +Christmas on Big Rattle. By Theodore Goodridge Roberts

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481279491
• ISBN13: 9781481279499
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"