The night before Christmas
By: illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780751328837
Subjects: Christmas; Juvenile literature; Christmas poetry; Children's stories; Christmas stories; Literary collections
Description: A collection of Christmas stories and poems, many accompanied by information about such Christmas traditions as decorating a tree, gift-giving, and Christmas dinners around the world.
Table of contents: title: The cherry tree carol; title: The little fir tree / by Hans Christian Andersen ; retold by Alastair Dougall; title: A merry Christmas from Little women / by Louisa May Alcott; title: Really, truly, Reilly / by Anne Merrick; title: The Christmas cherries / by Chretien de Troyes ; translated by John Hampden; title: Christmas dinner at the Cratchits from A Christmas carol / by Charles Dickens; title: The twelve days of Christmas; title: The cat on the dovrefelol / by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen I. Moe ; retold by Neil Philip; title: The holly and the ivy; title: There's snow on the fields; title: A Christmas story from This way to Christmas / by Ruth Sawyer; title: A visit from Saint Nicholas / by Clement C. Moore; title: Baboushka / by Arthur Scholey.