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