Christmas through a child's eyes
Subtitle: true stories that capture the wonder of the season
By: edited by Helen Szymanski
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781598696448
Subjects: Miscellanea; Wonder in children; 394.2.; Christmas; American Short stories
Description: "More than fifty contributors evoke the special feelings of the season with such moving, real-life stories as "The sweetness of giving, ... Grandpa Will's gift ... Santa is real."--Cover, p.4.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Shared popcorn / J. Hogan Clark; title: The school desks / Connie Sturm Cameron; title: The sweetness of giving / Megan (Molly) D. Willome; title: Santa's messenger / Lynn Ruth Miller; title: The adventures of Baby Jesus / Cheryl K. Pierson; title: Christmas Eve delivery / Christine E. Collier; title: A Christmas aha! / Charlene A. Derby; title: A special Christmas card / Dorothy Baughman; title: A gift of love / Bess Antisdale; title: My long brown stockings / M. DeLoris Henscheid; title: Granpa Will's gift / Nelia J. Greer; title: Sometimes less is more / Barbara Jeanne Fisher; title: At the five and dime / Arthur Bowler; title: Santa is real / Jo E. Gray; title: Seeing is believing / Patsy Thomas; title: Let there be light / Emmarie Lehnick; title: Burnt toast and tinsel / Barbara Kiffin; title: A million stars looked down / Jewell Johnson; title: Boy to the world! / Caroline B. Poser; title: Getting Christmas / Shauna Smith Duty; title: Safely home / Delbert L. Bieber; title: All I want for Christmas / Marie (Nikki) Esselstein; title: Mother knows best / Sharon Sheppard; title: Evergreen / Leslie J. Wyatt; title: A good song for shaving / Frances Hill Roberts; title: Getting it right / Helen C. Colella; title: Growing up cool / Nancy Jo Eckerson; title: The Christmas gifts / Raymond L. Atkins; title: Time of delight / Vivienne Mackie; title: A different kind of carol / Amy Ammons Mullis; title: The lonely Christmas tree / Marilyn Jaskulke; title: Belonging to winter / Faith Sherrill; title: Finding Santa / Debra J. Rankin; title: The Baby Jesus bed / Kathleen M. Muldoon; title: Through the innocence of childhood / Barbara Jeanne Fisher; title: The Christmas tree hunter / Ann Hite; title: Disappearing act / Randy Jean Bruskrud; title: Christmas giving / Linda Kaullen Perkins; title: The empty chair / Delbert L. Bieber; title: The stranger with the cardboard suitcase / Shirley P. Gumert; title: Giving and receiving / Claudia McKinney Mundell; title: Window shopping / Connie Vigil Platt; title: Wishing for miracles / Marcia E. Brown; title: The perfect gift / Helen Luecke; title: The truth about Santa / Bridget Balthrop Morton; title: The saint and the Santa / Annemarie Tazelaar; title: A musical miracle / Al Serradell; title: The last apple / Dmitri Barvinok; title: Forty dollars / Donna Sundblad; title: Memories of a refugee camp Christmas / Renie Burghardt; title: Grandpa's love / Stella Ward Whitlock; title: A gift for Veronica / Cherie Troped; title: So little, so much / Joan Fitting Scott; title: Holiday visitors / Michael M. Alvarez; title: Home for the holidays / Wayne R. Wallace; title: Some gifts cannot be wrapped / Lynne cooper Sitton; title: In the nick of time / Mimi Greenwood Knight; title: The hairbrush / Bob Rose; title: Mother Nature to the rescue / Georgia A. Hubley; title: Dancing with Daddy / Marilyn Olsein; title: The sweeping angel / Rita H. Strong; title: An inexpensive gift / Matthias L. Niska; title: Miracles / Carrillee Collins Burke; title: Yes, Deborah, there really is a Santa Claus / Linda Bruno; title: All that glitters / Marcia E. Brown; title: The tea set / Mary L. Hardwick; title: A doll for Jane / Barbara Anton; title: Memories will follow / Cindy Nappa McCabe; title: Love for Father / Lese Dunton.