The Christmas book.
By: Illustrated by Raymond Briggs.
Contributors: Briggs, Raymond.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Christmas -- Juvenile poetry; Christmas -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile poetry; Juvenile fiction
First sentence: What is the first thing that comes into your mind at the sound of the word "Christmas"?  Some will say 'presents', others 'plenty of food', others 'a Christmas tree'.  Some will think of snow and snowmen, others of eating turkey and plum pudding on a sun-baked beach by the Pacific Ocean; some will think of parties, of pantomimes, of holly and mistletoe, of carol-singing, roasting chestnuts by a log fire.
Description: Sixty-two selections, for and about Christmas including ballads, carols, legends, modern tales, and verse from literary and oral sources.
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Table of contents: pagenum: 7
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title: Christmas  An Introduction by James Reeves; pagenum: 13
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title: The Twelve Days of Christmas  - Traditional; pagenum: 16
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title: The Christmas Robin   - Janet McNeill; pagenum: 23
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title: Cock-Crow at Christmas    -William Shakespeare; pagenum: 23
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title: Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day   -Anonymous; pagenum: 24
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title: The Stones of Plouhinec   -Barbara Leonie Picard; pagenum: 31
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title: As Joseph was A-Walking    -Anonymous; pagenum: 32
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title: Christmas in a Village     -John Clare; pagenum: 34
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title: The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing  -Thomas Hardy; pagenum: 43
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title: Christmas Eve    -Anonymous; pagenum: 44
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title: A Very Great Curiosity; pagenum: 45
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title: The Holly and the Ivy    -Traditional; pagenum: 46
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title: Christmas Underground   -Kenneth Grahame; pagenum: 54
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title: The Oxen     -Thomas Hardy; pagenum: 55
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title: The Night Before Christmas    - Clement C. Moore; pagenum: 57
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title: Carols in Gloucestershire    -Laurie Lee; pagenum: 64
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title: Those Who at Christmas do Repine    -Anonymous; pagenum: 64
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title: Remember, O Thou Man    -Anonymous; pagenum: 66
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title: A Christmas Service    - Samuel Pepys; pagenum: 67
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title: For Them   -Eleanor Farjeon; pagenum: 68
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title: The Mouse That Didn't Believe in Santa Claus -Eugene Field; pagenum: 74
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title: Ceremonies For Christmas   -Robert Herrick; pagenum: 75
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title: Yule! Yule!   - Anonymous; pagenum: 75
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title: Sir Roger deCoverley at Christmas  - Joseph Addison; pagenum: 76
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title: Christmas Boxes; pagenum: 77
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title: New Prince, New Pomp  -Robert Southwell; pagenum: 78
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title: Ballyutility's Christmas Tree   -Janet McNeill; pagenum: 85
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title: To His Savior, A Child, A Present By A Child - Robert Herrick; pagenum: 86
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title: I Saw Three Ships   -Traditional; pagenum: 87
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title: Christmas is Coming  -Alison Uttley; pagenum: 92
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title: A Child This Day  is Born  -Traditional; pagenum: 93
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title: Keeping Christmas  -Eleanor Farjeon; pagenum: 94
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title: At Christmas Be Merry  -Thomas Tusser; pagenum: 94
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title: Christmas Presents   -Susan Coolidge; pagenum: 103
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title: A New Year Carol   - Traditional; pagenum: 104
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title: When Icicles  Hang by the Wall  - Shakespeare; pagenum: 106
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title: Cries of London   -Traditional; pagenum: 106
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title: Waiting   -James Reeves; pagenum: 107
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title: Christmas Pie   - George Wither; pagenum: 108
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title: Bob Cratchit's Christmas   - Charles Dickens; pagenum: 114
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title: Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind   -Shakespeare; pagenum: 115
title: Snow and Sun   -Traditional; pagenum: 115
title: The Shepherds  -The Chester Miracle Play adapted by Alexander Franklin; pagenum: 125
title: The Wassail Bowl   -Anonymous; pagenum: 125
title: Make Me Merry    - Anonymous; pagenum: 126
title: Mistletoe  - Walter de la Mare; pagenum: 127
title: Winter    - Lord Tennyson; pagenum: 128
title: Ragged Robin   - James Reeves; pagenum: 129
title: A Christmas Visit   - Mary Howitt; pagenum: 138
title: A Ballad of Christmas   -Walter de la Mare; pagenum: 141
title: Bread and Milk   - Christina Rossetti; pagenum: 141
title: The Thames Frozen January 1684  -John Evelyn; pagenum: 142
title: Frost  -Arthur Ransome; pagenum: 152
title: Snowing   - Walter de la Mare; pagenum: 153
title: Christmas   - Michael Bond; pagenum: 167
title: The Frozen Bird   - Anonymous; pagenum: 167
title: The Red Robin   - John Clare; pagenum: 168
title: Memories of Christmas  - Dylan Thomas; pagenum: 176
title: Epiphany   - Robert Herrick; pagenum: 177
title: Jenny Wren   - Traditional; pagenum: 178
title: Mr. Pickwick on the Ice  - Charles Dickens; pagenum: 186
title: St. Gearge and the Dragon  - A Traditional Cornish Christmas Play