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A family Christmas
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[2007]
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English
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From the Book - First edition.
We need a little Christmas / Jerry Herman -- Letter to Santa, & Introduction / Caroline Kennedy -- THE GRACIOUS TIME: (from Hamlet) / 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; HAIL THE HEAV'N BORN PRINCE OF PEACE: Christmas in Wartime: 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: The Christmas Feast
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 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 & 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 & Felix Bernard
All's Noel That Ends Noel / Ogden Nash
Christ Climbed Down / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Remembrance is Sufficient / W H. Auden
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (from As You Like It) / Shakespeare.
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9781401322274
9781598875737
9781598878691
9781598875737
9781598878691
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636657140556
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