A Newbery Christmas
Subtitle: fourteen stories of Christmas by Newbery Award-winning authors
By: selected by Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh ; introduction by Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh.
Contributors: Greenberg, Martin Harry.; Waugh, Charles.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Christmas -- Juvenile fiction; Children's stories, American; Christmas -- Fiction; Short stories
Description: A collection of stories about Christmas, by Newbery Award-winning authors such as Eleanor Estes, E.L. Konigsburg, Madeleine L'Engle, and Katherine Paterson.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh --; title: Babouscka / Carolyn Sherwin Bailey --; title: The hundred dresses / Eleanor Estes --; title: A letter from Santa Claus / Eleanor Estes --; title: Eliot Miles does not wish you a Merry Christmas because ... E.L. Konigsburg --; title: A full house / Madeleine L'Engle --; title: Once in the year / Elizabeth Yates --; title: The merry history of a Christmas pie / Nancy Willard --; title: The Christmas fake / Lois Lenski --; title: Woodrow Kennington works practically a miracle / Katherine Paterson --; title: All through the night / Rachel Field --; title: The Christmas apple / Ruth Sawyer --; title: A candle for St. Bridget / Ruth Sawyer --; title: The galloping sleigh / Hugh Lofting --; title: Ramona, the sheep suit, and the three wise persons / Beverly Cleary --; title: About the authors --; title: About the editors.