Christmas preparations and anticipation. From Nutcracker / E.T. A. Hoffman --
The stage-coach / Washington Irving --
The Christmas tree / Samuel Coleridge --
From My Antonia / Willa Cather --
From The wind in the willows / Kenneth Grahame --
From A Christmas memory / Truman Capote --
Blue Christmas / Terry Andrews --
Christmas customs, stories, and lore. Christmas every day / William Dean Howells --
From The Christmas box / Richard Paul Evans --
The legend of the Christmas tree / Clement Clarke Moore --
The legend of the poinsettia / Pat Mora & Charles Ramirez Berg --
The tree that didn't get trimmed / Christopher Morley --
Kidnapped Santa Claus / L. Frank Baum --
A Christmas story / Katherine Anne Porter --
Christmas memories. From A child's Christmas in Wales / Dylan Thomas --
Christmas in Maine / Robert Pl. Tristram Cofffin --
'Twas the night b4 Christmas / Mary Marcdante --
From Christmas in Plains / Jimmy Carter --
The Christmas tree in Brooklyn / Betty Smith --
Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The spirit of Christmas. From A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens --
From Little women / Louisa May Alcott --
From The good fairy / Harriet Beecher Stowe --
From Sassafrass, cypress & indigo / Ntozake Shange --
Christmas Day in the morning / Pearl S. Buck --
The Montreal aunts / Maureen Hull --
Our richest Christmas / Margery Talcott --
Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and the magi / Leo Rosten --
A typical Irish Christmas / Maeve Binchy --
The tree that came to stay / Anna Quindlen --
Keeping Christmas / Henry Van Dyke.