'Tis the Season a Christmas Reader Author:Carol Kelly-Gangi (Editor) "'Tis the Season" is a Christmas reader that celebrates Christmas in all of its wondrous guises. In it, you'll find more than fifty stories, excerpts, poems, songs, and recipes each inspired by the yuletide season. — Of course, there are such perennial favorites as O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi", Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"--a version that D... more »ickens himself made for use in his public readings?an adaptation of "The Nutcracker", Hans Christian Andersen's "The Fir-Tree", and an excerpt from Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" together with less-familiar Christmas offerings by L. Frank Baum, Ray Bradbury, Frederick Douglass, Paul Engle, Langston Hughes, Anna Quindlen, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Memorable verse by poets Phillips Brooks, G.K. Chesterton, Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Clement Clarke Moore, William Wordsworth, and others reflect upon some of the enduring symbols of the season?the jolly figure of Santa Clause, the majesty of Christmas trees, and the Nativity itself.
Enhanced with a selection of favorite Christmas carols,sampling of recipes for festive holiday foods, and journal pages to inscribe your own favorite Christmas memories, "'Tis the Season" is sure to be enjoyed by you and your family as part of your own Christmas celebration for many years to come.« less