Treasured Stories of Christmas

The gift of faith: born in Bethlehem / St. Luke The three wise men / St. Matthew The first Christmas tree / Eugene Field A little boy at Christ's Christmas tree / Fyodor Dostoyevsky December night / Willa Cather Bless me, Father, for I have sinned / Ray Bradbury A Christmas story / Katherine Anne Porter The miraculous staircase / Arthur Gordon Keeping Christmas / Henry van Dyke --The gift of hope: The fir tree / Hans Christian Andersen Merry Christmas / Stephen Leacock Valley Forge 24 December 1777 / F. Van Wyck Mason The rescue / Cleveland Amory -- The gift of love: A Christmas dinner won in battle / Stephen Crane Christmas Day in the morning / Pearl S. Buck The gift of the Magi / O. Henry -- The gift of giving: A Christmas inspiration / Lucy Maud Montgomery Christmas at Orchard House / Louisa May Alcott How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar / Bret Harte A Christmas carol in prose : an excerpt / Charles Dickens The tailor of Gloucester / Beatrix Potter Christmas or the Good Fairy / Harriet Beecher Stowe Christmas for Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo / Ntozake Shange Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Christmas every day / William Dean Howells Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever A gift of the heart / Norman Vincent Peale -- The gift of joy: The festival of St. Nicholas / Mary Mapes Dodge A kidnapped Santa Claus / L. Frank Baum Christmas Eve / Washington Irving Mr. Edwards meets Santa Claus / Laura Ingalls Wilder A Brooklyn Christmas / Betty Smith The tree that didn't get trimmed / Christopher Morley Letter from Santa Claus / Mark Twain Is there a Santa Claus? / Francis P. Church