The Saturday Evening Post Christmas Book Author:Jean White, Starkey Flythe Artist and writers from The Saturday Evening Post; include Norman Rockwell, J. C. Leyendecker, N. C. Wyeth and Guernsey Moore and others. — Perhaps at no time of year is the sense of knowledge garnered from parables so potent a force as at Christmas, and the very opening words of 'A Christmas Carol' or the Gospels are strong enough to bri... more »ng tears. So it is fitting that these stories, many with their own familiar illustrations, should be brought together in one book. ...
In the nineteenth century, Post writers Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain and Washington Irving created the classics whose familiar lines warm our Christmases today. ... These popular writers never forgot the real meaning of Christmas and there is a reverence in their work which makes them fit company for the Bible stories of the nativity.
The Post Christmas Book presents a range of activities and readings for the family. It is at once a joyous homecoming for two centuries of Post writers and artists and we hope a source of inspiration for new and old readers.« less