Vintage book with 9 Christmas stories
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Vintage hardcover book with 9 Christmas stories:
Stephen Collins' Christmas
The Child in the Temple
The Chimes
The Lonely Starlet
The Valiant Shepherd
Christmas Always
The Birthplace of the King
The Christmas Guest
The Best Book of All

This book would make a great holiday gift or welcomed addition to an antique book collection.
4792328
Great Christmas Stories.  A friend had a copy of Christmas Teasury of Yuletide Stories on their coffee table during the Holidays and I had to have a copy for my family to enjoy!
1059185
These stories were very sweet and fun for the holidays.  I enjoyed reading them to see Christmas how it used to be, with a bit less commercialism.
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If you love 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (by Clement Clarke Moore), and also love to knit, then you'll probably love this book as much as I do.  The classic poem is reprinted and illustrated by full-color, cartoon-style drawings; and full-color photographs of the knitted figures (in poses) are superimposed on the drawings to help tell the story.  The book is delightful to look at, even if you never actually knit the projects.

Patterns are included for ten three-dimensional toy projects:  (1) Santa; (2) Santa's reindeer; (3) Santa's bag of toys and gifts (including a candy cane, wrapped presents, a tiny doll, a tiny teddy bear); (4) the crescent moon wrapped in a scarf;  (5) a father in nightcap and striped nightshirt; (6)-(7) a mother and daughter in pink nightdresses; (8) a baby in a knitted-in turquoise body suit; (9) red Christmas stockings (one life-size, one miniature); and (10) a charming 10-1/2" diameter Christmas wreath (decorated with attached flowers and an attached simple dove ornament).  The book's cover photo, which shows Santa and his reindeer, gives you an idea of what the projects look like.

There are basic, easy-to-follow instructions for knitting, shaping, joining, and embroidering the figures.  The figures are stuffed with ordinary fiberfill; the wreath calls for a base ring fashioned from foamboard.  The patterns are written for DK yarn, and are mostly knit on size 2/3 needles.  The author recommends using yarn that contains at least 20 percent wool, because cotton and acrylic yarns aren't stretchy enough to produce the best results.  The figures use small amounts of yarn.  For example, Santa needs 1 oz. (90 yards) of red yarn; 1/2 oz. (44 yards) each of cream yarn and beige yarn; and small amounts of black, mauve, fluffy white, white mohair, and green yarn (for, respectively, Santa's belt, boots, "fur" trim on jacket and hat, beard, and mittens).
1029624
This is a great book to document Christmas memories from Christmas Eve to New Years....5 years are covered.  It has photo pockets too.
709231
Beautiful book with many facets of Christmas in our culture, divided by topic -- reading it every year brings back memories.
1454661
I loved the $5 price tag on this book before Christmas and was so excited to see all of the "old" Disney stories inside.  These are the classic stories that I grew up with, so I am excited to share these with my 4-yr-old daughter.  The drawings are classic as well, so it's different from most of her other Disney books.
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If you love to read Christmas books with your kiddos then this is a wonderful little story to add to your collection. The sweet little creatures share the different Christmas traditions that they have with their families.

The sled dogs pick the perfect tree. The polar bears love to go sledding and then warm up with a cup of hot cocoa. The little foxes make delicious Christmas cookies to eat and share. The penguins decorate their tree as a family. The whales sing carols to the delight of all. The owls are very talented at wrapping gifts. But above all other activities they all realize that God's Gift is the biggest blessing of the season.

We loved the fuzzy little illustrations of some of our favorite animals. The gently rhyming story adds to the beautiful book that will become part of our Christmas story collection. This would be a nice book to read with your little ones as you snuggle together in the evening in front of the tree.

I received a copy of this book to facilitate my review.
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These are great books. We ordered this for the first Christmas we spent in Oregon. It's got a very nice classic feel to it, and it's great for the young readers to have some unique books just for the holidays. It was a big hit, and I've recommended it to my co-workers who have young ones. It would also make for a fun coffee table book for the Christmas season I suppose.
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This is a collection of interesting and entertaining Christmas memories. It revived memories from my own holidays past. The tales are told with humor, nostalgia and sadness. Readers will laugh, cry and at times sigh. They will relate to the author's memories. An added bonus is the inclusion of some good cocktail recipes to be added to one's repertoire. It was a good read.
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I`ve been looking for this book for two years, I wanted a new, unused one, and finally about a month ago I found it here on amazon, through a seller called Partners In Time Books.
And I`m definitely not disappointed! The book contains prints of old christmascards, christmasstories, christmascartoons, well after all it is a CHRISTMAS Treasury. I found some stuff here that I`ve never seen in print anywhere else, and I`m so happy that I finally am the owner of this beautiful book.
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I loved this book!  There are 14 folk tales that young children will love and remember for many years to come. Each story teaches a valuable lesson. It's a book that you can share with your own young children and, if you are a grandparent (as I am), a wonderful book to share with grandchildren.
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It is as described and just as I remembered when I was young!  Great classic authors!  These timeless stories help us remember and remind us what Christmas should be.  The stories and poems rekindle the true meaning of Christmas.
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I chose this book because I'd read a copy a friend had.  I'm giving several of these to friends for Christmas.
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Christmas is a time for tradition.  Time-honored traditions have a way of unifying our experience of the holiday in ways that few other things can. I started a few traditions when my children were young and we still find them comforting today. Still, I wish I had started more traditionsand reading from a book of Christmas stories daily as the days count down is a great way to get into the holiday spirit.

Home for Christmas is a delightful anthology of short stories with Christmas themes. The authors are familiar (Pearl Buck, Henry van Dyke) and less-familiar, but all are enjoyable and pleasant. Most are secular stories that capture the spirit of Christmas in subtle ways. The 20 stories are all great for reading aloud to children or adults and most are about 10 minutes of reading or less. I didn't get the book until right before Christmas so I didn't get to read it much in my run-up to the holiday, but I will next year.

I received a complementary copy of this book in exchange for my review. The opinions expressed are entirely my own.
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This is a wonderful book.  Gorgeously bound with thick pages and lavish illustrations and photographs, it is perfect as a gift AND to buy for yourself and keep year after year.  You could even make a Christmas tradition of reading one story a night together in the week leading up to Christmas (that's what I'm going to do).
As with any collection of stories, there are some that you will LOVE and some that are just pretty good, but they all share one thing:  a nativity plays a part in each story, and they are all full of quiet miracles.

My ratings per story:

Ollie:  5 out of 5 stars
Poet Boy:  4 out of 5 stars
Over My Dead Body:  3.5 out of 5 stars
Five Quarters of a Mile:  4 out of 5 stars
Nativity Seen Smiling:  3.5 out of 5 stars
Sugarplum and the Christmas Cradle:  4 out of 5 stars

QUOTES:

Ollie

Well, this was turning into an exciting Christmas for me - a stolen car, an imprisoned family, a crazy old woman, and all our Christmas presents hanging in the balance.  It was an adventure!

Poet Boy:
Since no one could figure out how to keep the curtain from rising for Act 2, the players got into position.
Over My Dead Body:

It was a creche only a heartbeat away from life itself, and all who saw it knew that it was Max Schroeder's masterpiece.

Five-Quarters of a Mile:

But something was wrong, and Zeek felt winter in his bones.  Two days ago, he'd had a spell while shoveling snow from the path that led past the woodpile and on to the outhouse.  That pathway was crucial.

Nativity Seen Smiling:

The unhappy couple had snapped at each other endlessly, taken their meals in silence, and thwarted all efforts at honeymoon bliss.

Sugarplum and the Christmas Cradle:

Finally he'd gotten to the S's, and that's when he'd found Sugarplum, and now she was Sugarplum morning, noon, and night.  Truth be told, it was getting a little sickening, even to Sugarplum, who felt she was being sugar pummeled to death.

(I received a copy of this title from the publisher to facilitate my review)
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Krampus is a wonderful concept that has its origins in early Christmas.
The story was to try to keep children to be good during the holiday season or
there would be terrible consequences. The book has many images of the Krampus and
is a wonderful collection of early postcards. Anyone interested in antique Christmas would like this book. It shows the other side of the holiday and is
beautifully shown in the book. We highly recommend it.