num_pages: 334
description: They are Some of the warmest childhood memories, those unhurried evenings around the fireplace, Christmas tree, or dinner table, when there was time for a story ... Now, with this collection, you can keep the story-telling tradition alive in your family, and pass it on to your children or grandchildren. Home for Christmas includes twenty time-honored favorites. Several are by world-famous authors; others are little-known European tales not available in English anywhere else. Selected for their literary quality and their spiritual integrity, they will resonate with readers of all ages, year after year.Contents:Brother robber / Helene ChristallerThree young kings / George Sumner AlbeeTransfiguration / Madeleine L'EngleWillibald's trip to heaven / ReimmichlThe guest / Nikolai S. LesskovChristmas day in the morning / Pearl S. BuckThe other wise man / Henry van DykeThe miraculous staircase / Arthur GordonNo room at the inn / Katherine PatersonThe chess player / Ger KoopmanThe Christmas lie / Dorothy ThomasThe riders of St. Nicholas / Jack SchaeferGrandfather's stories / Ernst WiechertThe vexation of Barney Hatch / B.J. ChaseThe empty cup / Opal MeniusThe well of the star / Elizabeth GoudgeA certain small shepherd / Rebecca CaudillThe carpenter's Christmas / Peter K. RoseggerWhat the kings brought / Ruth SawyerThe Christmas rose / Selma Lagerlöf
language: English
title: Home For Christmas: Stories For Young And Old
titlecomplete: Home For Christmas: Stories For Young And Old
genres: Christmas, Short Stories, Fiction, Holiday
ratings_count: 98
publisher: Orbis Books