Holiday Classics in MTSU Library

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Thompson, Jean McKee, comp. Our own Christmas; an anthology, selected by Jean McKee Thompson.
Read classic stories such as "The Gift of the Magi" in this collection.

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Bible. N.T. Gospels. English. Selections. 1966. Authorized. The Christmas story from the Gospels of Matthew & Luke. Edited by Marguerite Northrup.

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A Christmas memory / by Truman Capote ; illustrated by Beth Peck. A Knopf book and cassette classic A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.
A classic story for all ages.

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Robinson, Barbara. The best Christmas pageant ever. Pictures by Judith Gwyn Brown. The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.

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A child's Christmas in Wales / Dylan Thomas ; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. New York : Holiday House, c1985. 47 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. A Welsh poet recalls the celebration of Christmas in Wales and the feelings it evoked in him as a child.

Other Christmas books and collections

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The Christmas tree / Julie Salamon ; illustrated by Jill Weber. New York : Random House, c1996. At Christmas time, a nun agrees to donate to Rockefeller Center a fir tree which has been her best friend since the time she arrived at her convent as a young orphan.

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Evans, Richard Paul. The Christmas box / Richard Paul Evans. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995.

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This year it will be different and other stories : a Christmas treasury / by Maeve Binchy. New York : Delacorte Press, 1996. The first step of Christmas -- The ten snaps of Christmas -- Miss Martin's wish -- The hard core -- Christmas timing -- The civilized Christmas -- Pulling together -- A hundred milligrams -- The Christmas baramundi -- This year it will be different -- Season of fuss -- "A typical Irish Christmas..." -- Traveling hopefully -- What is happiness? -- The best inn in town.

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Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; ten Christmas stories. With illus. by F. O. C. Darley. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1969]

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In the spirit of wonder; a Christmas anthology for our age. [New York] Pantheon Books [1961]

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Our own Christmas; an anthology, selected by Jean McKee Thompson. Boston, Beacon Press [1967]

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Silent night : a novel / Mary Higgins Clark. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995.

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Bypaths in Dixie; folk tales of the South. With an introd. by Harry Stillwell Edwards. The Black heritage library collection Mister Tall Pine's Christmas tree.

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Ancestral voices : an anthology of early science fiction / edited by Douglas Menville and R. Reginald. New York : Arno Press, 1975. Bangs, J. K. A glance ahead; being a Christmas tale

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Peterkin, Julia (Mood) 1880-1961. A plantation Christmas. Decorations by David Hendrickson. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1972.

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Nissenbaum, Stephen. The battle for Christmas / Stephen Nissenbaum. New England's war on Christmas -- Revisiting "A visit from St. Nicholas" -- The parlor and the street -- Affection's gift : toward a history of Christmas presents -- Under the Christmas tree : a battle of generations -- Tiny Tim and other charity cases -- Wassiling across the color line : Christmas in the antebellum South -- Epilogue : The ghosts of Christmas past.

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Christmas at Sagamore Hill with Theodore Roosevelt. New York, Longmans, Green, 1960. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Fiction.

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The Christmas wife : stories / by Helen Norris. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1985.

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Consumer rites : the buying & selling of American holidays / Leigh Eric Schmidt. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.

Children's Books

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An Amish Christmas / by Richard Ammon ; illustrated by Pamela Patrick. Some Amish children celebrate Christmas in their one-room school and in their own simple ways with their family and relatives.

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Red Ranger came calling : a guaranteed true Christmas story / Berkeley Breathed. While spending Christmas in 1939 with a well-meaning aunt, a young boy who does not believe in Santa Claus has an unusual experience that changes his thinking.

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Santa's short suit shrunk and other Christmas tongue twisters / by Nola Buck ; pictures by Sue Truesdell. An I can read book A collection of Christmas tongue twisters, including "Sarah says she's sure she saw Santa" and "Greg gets Glenn a great green gift."

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McKissack, Pat, 1944- Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters / by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack ; illustrated by John Thompson. New York : Scholastic, c1994. Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

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Christmas in the Big Woods / adapted from the Little house books by Laura Ingalls Wilder ; illustrated by Renee Graef. My first Little house books A young pioneer girl and her family celebrate Christmas in their cabin in the Wisconsin woods.

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Goodall, John S. An Edwardian Christmas / John S. Goodall. Illustrations without text depict the celebration of Christmas in an English country home at the turn of the century.

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Angels & other strangers : family Christmas stories / Katherine Paterson.

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The animals' Christmas / Catharine Gardam ; with pictures by Gavin Rowe. On Christmas Eve a farm family discovers its missing animals celebrating Christmas in a very special way.

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Arthur's Christmas / Marc Brown. Arthur puts a lot of time, effort, and thought into his special present for Santa Claus.

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The bells of Christmas / Virginia Hamilton ; illustrations by Lambert Davis. Twelve-year-old Jason describes the wonderful Christmas of 1890 that he and his family celebrate in their home in Springfield, Ohio.

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Simon, Norma. The story of Hanukkah / by Norma Simon ; illustrated by Leonid Gore. Explains the history and traditions that are a part of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

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Kimmel, Eric A. The spotted pony : a collection of Hanukkah stories / retold by Eric A. Kimmel ; illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher. Eight stories, with a "shammes" story for each, to be read on the eight nights of Hanukkah.

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The ugly menorah / Marissa Moss. For the first time since her grandfather's death, Rachel feels close to him as she and her grandmother celebrate Hanukkah with the simple menorah that he had made many years ago.

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