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Book Christmas 8

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Christmas essential, and one with a few memorable celebration scenes. Scrooge's Christmas morning...

Emma by Jane Austen Christmas rarely figures significantly into Jane Austen novels, perhaps because they predated the Victorian era that...

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy This playful scene interrupts a rather tense and melodramatic family Christmas, but it's also unlike most...

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura and Mary never would have looked in their stockings again. The cups and the...

In the Land of the Big Red Apple by Roger Lea MacBride “And it’s signed, ‘Santa Claus.’” [Almanzo said] At those last words, Swiney’s...

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Christmas morning broke on a beautiful white world. It had been a very mild December and people...

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott That was a very happy breakfast, though they didn’t get any of it; and when they went away, leaving...

The first of my 25 YA Literary Christmas scenes is... *drum role* Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary Ramona was filled with joy....

It's Christmas! I LOVE the Christmas season! Not only because of presents, but the DECORATIONS MUSIC MOVIES and....... THE STORIES OF...

December 2015 Let It Snow A delightful book by the wonderful John Green, along with the equally wonderful Maureen Johnson and Lauren...