Lincoln, or stories adapted from the Bible.Ĥ. You’ll find here Charles Dickens’ Christmas at Fezziwig’s Warehouse, Little Girl’s Christmas by Winnifred E. Skinner, is a response for the desire for a select collection of children’s Christmas stories in one volume.Įach of the stories has already won the approval of thousands of children, and “each is fraught with the true Christmas spirit.” The book, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. SkinnerĪ collection of 35 beautiful Christmas stories for children. The Children’s Book of Christmas StoriesĮdited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Henry’s anthology The Four Million in 1906. The story was first published in book form in the O. Jim, however, sells his watch, to give Della an assortment of expensive hair accessories, useless now that her hair is short. They have only two possessions between them in which they take pride: Della’s beautiful long, flowing hair, almost to her knees, and Jim’s shiny gold watch, which had belonged to his father and grandfather.ĭella sells her hair to a nearby hairdresser, and finds a platinum pocket watch chain for Jim’s watch. After landing his sleigh on the roof, the saint enters the house through the chimney, carrying a sack of toys with him.Ī short story about how a young married couple, Jim and Della, deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. Nicholas in an air-borne sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. On Christmas Eve night, while his wife and children sleep, a man awakens to noises outside his house. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house The poem, sometimes called the best known verses ever written by an American, is responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Nicholas, but the book is better known as Twas the Night Before Christmas from its first line.
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