Christmas Every Day
10 best books like Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells): A Midnight Clear: Family Christmas Stories, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: The Secret of the Realms: An Extended Novelization, The Trees of the Dancing Goats, What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story, Christmas Treasury, The House Without a Christmas Tree, Holly Claus: The Christmas Princess, A Small Miracle, Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review, Christmas At The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, And Art
A Midnight Clear: Family Christmas Stories
| Author | Katherine Paterson |
| ISBN | 0142300373 |
Each Christmas Eve when John Paterson was a pastor, he read an original story to his congregation--a story that illuminated the true meaning of the holiday season, written by his wife, two-time Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson. Now you, too, can share them. Whether depicting a child coping with...
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: The Secret of the Realms: An Extended Novelization
| Author | Walt Disney Company |
| ISBN | 1368020356 |
This dazzling novel will not only retell the moving story from The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, but half of the book will expand and explore the world of the Walt Disney Studios film with brand-new, exclusive content. Complete with beautiful full-page chapter opener illustrations and never-before-seen...
The Trees of the Dancing Goats
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0689838573 |
Trisha loves the eight days of Hanukkah, when her mother stays home from work, her Babushka makes delicious potato latkes, and her Grampa carves wonderful animals out of wood as gifts for Trisha and her brother. In the middle of her family's preparation for the festival of lights, Trisha visits her closest...
What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0440226848 |
Not everyone is lucky at Christmas. Some people would call 16-year-old Liz Kitchell and her family truly fortunate, but it doesn't feel that way to her. It seems that only a miracle can give 8-year-old Katie her holiday wish. She wants a family, something she does not have as a foster child. As for 17-year-old...
| Author | Jan Brett |
| ISBN | 0399237410 |
Enjoy a multicultural celebration of the Christmas spirit with the renowned Jan Brett. This stellar volume holds seven of Jan Brett's gorgeous tales, all perfectly suited for the holiday. The Mitten, The Wild Christmas Reindeer, Trouble with Trolls, The Twelve Days of Christmas, The Hat, Christmas...
| Author | Gail Rock |
| ISBN | 0394928334 |
The genesis of this slender but excellent novel is somewhat unusual, and more complex in the relationship of novelization to movie than most. In the summer of 1972, Gail Rock (b. 1940), who was then working with the CBS TV network, was chatting with some Jewish co-workers about the December holidays....
Holly Claus: The Christmas Princess
| Author | Brittney Ryan |
| ISBN | 0061440221 |
Many creative but unexplained plot details (similar to Sleeping Beauty). Fun illustrations, but poorly written. The website is more than ten years old and does nothing.
Begins in December 1878 with Christopher's letter. Santa's wife is Viviana, and their wish for a child (Holly) comes true....
| Author | Peter Collington |
| ISBN | 0679887253 |
This is a Christmas miracle like no other, with such richness in image and
story that children will return to it again and again" "(Booklist,"
starred review).
The wooden figures in a Christmas crè che come to life to save a poor old
woman in this truly original, deeply moving contemporary...
| Author | Mark Twain |
| ISBN | 0299234746 |
Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography stands as the last of Twain’s great yarns. Here he tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and reverence—ending, as always, tongue-in-cheek: “Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.”...
| Author | The New Yorker |
| ISBN | 1400061407 |
From the pages of America’s most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer—plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking—in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing...
| Author | Brendan Lehane |
| ISBN | 0809452618 |
This book is featured on Shabby Sunday and you can see my full review including pictures @ https://readrantrockandroll.com/2018/...
I started collecting the books in this series early last year and I still have four more to collect. I've enjoyed a few while others weren't favorites. I wanted...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
Patricia MacLachlan is a wonderful author. I actually didn't like the story, but I finished reading it through to the end because of her great story-telling; she has an incredible knack for sucking you in.
The story: A title like "The True Gift" shouldn't be bestowed on a story that is devoted...
| Author | Katharine Holabird |
| ISBN | 0670061034 |
I enjoyed reading Angelina's Christmas. I enjoyed meeting Angelina and her family. I loved how thoughtful and empathetic Angelina was. She realizes that there is one house in the village that is not decorated. She notices that there is one "old man huddled by a tiny fire." She learns from her parents...
| Author | Hisako Aoki |
| ISBN | 0689817231 |
Last Christmas Eve, our church librarian, was visiting her daughter’s church and heard their children’s director read Santa’s Favorite Story: Santa Tells the Story of the First Christmas by Hisako Aoki. She liked it so much that you can now find a copy in our library! In the book, Ivan Ganteschev’s...
The First Gift of Christmas
| Author | Richard Paul Evans |
| ISBN | 0879057637 |
Through "The Christmas Box, " our understanding of family and the quick passage of time was enlightened. Millions of hearts were touched by its warmth and wisdom.Now, in "The First Gift of Christmas, " Richard Paul Evans takes us to the next level of understanding, inviting us to search our souls for...
Zanna's Gift: A Life in Christmases
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
| ISBN | 0765312379 |
From the pen of a masterful storyteller comes a touching and inspirational story of love, loss, and the true meaning of Christmas that will take its place beside Richard Paul Evans' "Christmas Box Trilogy," as a timeless classic that will be passed from generation to generation.
When the Pullman...
| Author | John Grogan |
| ISBN | 0061372927 |
With all the excitement of Christmas approaching, it's no surprise that Marley, the lovable pup with a nose for trouble, wants to get in on the action. Anticipating his very first snowfall and Santa's arrival, Marley jumps in to help his family every way he can. But Marley, being Marley, always ends up...
The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| ISBN | 0877888434 |
To seven-year-old Vicky Austin, the twenty-four days before Christmas are the most wonderful days of the year. She's going to be an angel in the Christmas Pageant. Best of all, Vicky and her brother John and her little sister Suzy do something special every day to celebrate: they hang twinkling lights,...
| Author | Kate Greenaway |
| ISBN | 0517261820 |
Charming reproduction of rare volume by famed 19th-century illustrator includes abundantly illustrated list of over 200 plants and their figurative equivalents tulip = fame; blue violet = faithfulness, etc. Selection of flower-related verses, including "To a Mountain Daisy" by Robert Burns,...
| Author | Stuart McLean |
| ISBN | 0670064459 |
Hapless Dave is at it again, promising his beloved wife Morley that he will take care of the Christmas turkey while she takes the kids to work at the food bank. Dave fails to realize quite what's involved, and the result is a Homeresque struggle to beat all the odds and somehow get an unappetizing, frozen,...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
| Author | Robert Lewis May |
| ISBN | 1557091390 |
In 1939 Robert L. May, a copywriter working at Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., wrote a holiday story at the request of his employer. Almost two and a half million copies of the little tale about a reindeer with a shiny red nose were given away to all the children who visited Montgomery Ward stores that...
Angela and the Baby Jesus
| Author | Frank McCourt |
| ISBN | 1416574700 |
"When my mother, Angela, was six years old, she felt sorry for the Baby Jesus in the Christmas crib at St. Joseph's Church near School House Lane where she lived...."* * * *Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes" is a modern classic. Now he has written a captivating Christmas...
An Early American Christmas
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 0823406172 |
Author's Note: "At Christmastime, in the New Hampshire town where I live, it is traditional for white electric candles to be put in house windows and in the windows of the Baptist Church. It is a beautiful sight. But the early residents of this New England town and other villages weren't always so festive....
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
| Author | Maya Angelou |
| ISBN | 1400065585 |
In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. “Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” she writes, “and speak the word aloud. Peace.”
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| Author | Robert Sabuda |
| ISBN | 0439672562 |
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of THE CHRISTMAS ALPHABET, Sabuda has created a brand new pop-up to include in this special edition, which also has a brand new cover and is covered in green foil.
Celebrate Christmas with this beautiful pop-up alphabet book by award-winning author Robert...
