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The Children's Book of Christmas Stories 1Preface
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Literature · For Children
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories 1
Preface
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PREFACE
Many librarians have felt the need and expressed the desire for a select collection of children's Christmas stories in one volume. This book claims to be just that and nothing more.
Each of the stories has already won the approval of thousands of children, and each is fraught with the true Christmas spirit.
It is hoped that the collection will prove equally acceptable to parents, teachers, and librarians.
ASA DON DICKINSON.
(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.)
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Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse. By Charles Dickens 3
*The Fir-Tree. By Hans Christian Andersen 6
The Christmas Masquerade. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 19
*The Shepherds and the Angels. Adapted from the Bible 34
+The Telltale Tile. By Olive Thorne Miller 36
*Little Girl's Christmas. By Winnifred E. Lincoln 48
+A Christmas Matinée. By M. A. L. Lane 57
*Toinette and the Elves. By Susan Coolidge 68
The Voyage of the Wee Red Cap. By Ruth Sawyer Durand 86
*A Story of the Christ-Child (a German Legend for Christmas Eve). As told by Elizabeth Harrison 96
*Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas. by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 103
Why the Chimes Rang. By Raymond McAlden 113
*The Birds' Christmas (founded on fact). By F. E. Mann 120
+The Little Sister's Vacation. By Winifred M. Kirkland 126
*Little Wolff's Wooden Shoes. By François Coppée, adapted and translated by Alma J. Foster 139
+Christmas in the Alley. By Olive Thorne Miller 146
*A Christmas Star. By Katherine Pyle 158
+The Queerest Christmas. By Grace Margaret Gallaher 165
Old Father Christmas. By J. H. Ewing 179
A Christmas Carol. By Charles Dickens 193
How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats. By Elia W. Peattie 196
The Legend of Babouscka. From the Russian Folk Tale 208
*Christmas in the Barn. By F. Arnstein 211
The Philanthropist's Christmas. By James Weber Linn 216
*The First Christmas-Tree. By Lucy Wheelock 230
The First New England Christmas. By G. L. Stone and M. G. Fickett 232
The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner. By Charles Dickens 242
Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six. By Anne Hollingsworth Wharton 253
*Christmas Under the Snow. By Olive Thorne Miller 261
Mr. Bluff's Experience of Holidays. By Oliver Bell Bunce 273
+Master Sandy's Snapdragon. By Elbridge S. Brooks 284
A Christmas Fairy. By John Strange Winter 297
The Greatest of These. By Joseph Mills Hanson 303
*Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe. By Elizabeth Harrison 316
+Christmas on Big Rattle. By Theodore Goodridge Roberts 329
