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A family Christmas
Publisher
Hyperion
Publication Date
c2007
Language
English
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From the Book - 1st ed.
We need a little Christmas / Jerry Herman
Letter to Santa, & Introduction / Caroline Kennedy
The gracious time (from Hamlet) / William Shakespeare
Psalm 8
Credo / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Letter to Fred Allen / Groucho Marx
Relative pronouns / E. B. White
Keeping Christmas / Henry van Dyke
White Christmas / Irving Berlin
Deck the halls (Welsh traditional carol)
Under the mistletoe / Countee Cullen
Messiah (Christmas portions) / Mark Doty
Little tree / E. E. Cummings
The Christmas tree / Emma Lazarus
Christmas trees: a Christmas circular letter / Robert Frost
A Christmas tree / Piri Thomas
Christmas party at the South Danbury Church / Donald Hall
The loudest voice / Grace Paley
Peace and goodwill to managers / George Bernard Shaw
The old scout: the season of letter-perfect families / Garrison Keillor
The computer's first Christmas card / Edwin Morgan
Lunch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668 (1984)
The holly and the ivy (English traditional carol)
Santa Claus is comin' to town / Haven Gillespie and J. Fred Coots
A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore
Is there a Santa Claus? ("Yes, Virginia") / Francis P. Church
Letter to Michelle Rochon / John F. Kennedy
Letter from Santa Claus / Mark Twain
Santa's stocking / Katharine Lee Bates
Mr. Edwards Meets Santa Claus (from Little House on the Prairie) / Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Chaparral Christmas gift / O. Henry
Santa Claus / Sonny Boy Williamson
Saint Nicholas / Marianne Moore
Saint Nicholas (from The Christmas encyclopedia) / William D. Crump
Six to eight black men / David Sedaris
Santaland 2006 (from Santa guide for the Macy's Santa)
Children of the world v. Santa Claus / Andrew J. McClurg
The deadweight loss of Christmas (from American Economic Review) / Joel Waldfogel
NORAD Tracks Santa (online tracking; also send Santa an email) / www .noradsanta .org
Father Christmas executed / Claude Levi-Strauss
Christmas in Hollis / Run-D.M.C.
Away in a manger / William James Kirkpatrick
Isaiah 9:2-6
Luke 2: 1-20
Pedida da la posada : asking for lodging
The stable / Gabriela Mistral
The barn / Elizabeth Coatsworth
Presepio / Joseph Brodsky
The puppy who wanted a boy / Jane Thayer
Christmas superstitions (from Christmas in the mountains) / Hubert J. Davis
Christmas Eve, Nochebuena / Cesar Vallejo
Carol of the birds, El cant dels ocells (Old Spanish carol from Catalonia)
Silent Night / Joseph Mohr & Franz Gruber
Joy to the world / Isaac Watts & G. F. Handel
Christmas sparrow / Billy Collins
Christmas Day in the morning / Pearl S. Buck
Christmas Day at sea / Joseph Conrad
Christmas / Vladimir Nabokov
A Christmas memory / Truman Capote
Blond / Natasha Trethewey
All I want for Christmas is you / Mariah Carey & Walter Afanasieff
Hark! The herald angels sing / Charles Wesley, George Whitefield & Martin Madan, and Felix Mendelssohn
Peace / Henry Vaughan
Letter to John Hancock / George Washington
Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Christmas truce, World War I (from The London Times)
Letter to Tommy, World War II / Lt. Col. Ralph Noonan
Telegram to the U.S. Ambassador, Moscow / W. Averell Harriman
A Christmas sermon on peace / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christmas e-mails from Iraq / Capt. Trent Weston & Sgt. Mike Mira
Happy Xmas (war is over) / John Lennon & Yoko Ono
We wish you a Merry Christmas (Traditional)
All you that to feasting and mirth are inclined (Anonymous English Medieval)
"Amos 'n' Andy" Christmas show fails test of time (from The New York Times) / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Christmas in Qatar / Calvin Trillin
Christmas laughter / Nikki Giovanni
Penalty for keeping Christmas
Grace defended / Cotton Mather
From Martha Washington's kitchen
Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet A. Jacobs
Christmas in the olden time / Sir Walter Scott
The second of the three spirits (from A Christmas carol) / Charles Dickens
Salvation Army's bounty (from the New York Times)
Christmas every day / William Dean Howells
Christmas in the tenements / Theodore Dreiser
Un poquito de tu amor / Sandra Cisneros
Here we come a-wassaling
O come all ye faithful / Frederick Oakeley & William Thomas Brooke and John Francis Wade
Matthew 2:1-12
The oxen / Thomas Hardy
A Christmas carol / Christina Rossetti
Carol of the Brown King / Langston Hughes
Christmas morning / Elizabeth Madox Roberts
The gift of the Magi / O. Henry
The real gifts parents can give to children / Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dreams of a black Christmas / Gwendolyn Brooks
Christmas / St. Augustine
The first Nowell
Winter wonderland / Richard B. Smith and Felix Bernard
All's Noël that ends Noël / Ogden Nash
Christ climbed down / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Remembrance is sufficient / W. H. Auden
Blow, blow, thou winter wind (from As you like it) / William Shakespeare.
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