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A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs - Children's Holiday Hardcover Treasury Book
A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs has Christmas favorites for the family! Bring everyone together to enjoy this collection of traditional tales , classic rhymes, and cherished songs and carols. Each one is beautifully illustrated to conjure up the wonder and the joy of Christmas . Stories The First Christmas, The Nutcracker, A Christmas Carol, Things You Never Knew About Santa Claus, and The Twelve Days of Christmas. Songs include Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, O Christmas Tree, Always a Manger, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Jingle Bells, Deck the Halls, The First Noel, Good King Wenceslas, We Three Kings, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Silent Night, and O Come All Ye Faithful.
191 pages, Hardcover
Published July 24, 2023
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821 books11 followersIn 2018, Cottage Door Press acquired the US and UK rights of the former UK-based publisher Parragon Books.
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January 17, 2024
Well, perhaps I am being a trifle harsh only rating Parragon Books' 2016 anthology A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs with only two stars. But sorry, except for the fact that I do kind of aesthetically enjoy the accompanying artwork in A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs, and consider the varied and colourfully joyful illustrations a nice enough decorative trim, absolutely ALL that is in any manner textual leaves much, leaves in fact everything to be desired (at least for me, personally, and so much so that the two star rating for A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs is actually pretty ridiculously generous and is only not one star because the artwork is decently visually appealing).
For frustratingly and totally annoyingly, the complete lack of ANY source acknowledgments and notes for the retold Christmas themed stories featured in A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs utterly and totally renders me hugely livid, and yes, I actually consider it majorly academically dishonest to in A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs not be listing the Holy Bible and the Gospels of Luke and Matthew as the main sources for the Nativity Story, E.T.A. Hoffmann/Alexandre Dumas for The Nutcracker and Hans Christian Andersen for The Fir Tree retellings, and with this also in fact very much pertaining to the featured Yuletide songs of A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs, since most of them do actually have both composers and lyricists, and which really should be included and pointed out in A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs, as well as all of the songs' verses and the musical score for each carol, and of course also the composition history and traditions of the presented songs. So yes indeed, to say that I have been massively disappointed with A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs is pretty much a major understatements and is also something that the aesthetically pleasant illustrations will not ever be able to remedy and fix. Because aside from the (already mentioned) academically cringe-worthy total lack of even some background information and utilised sources, that in particular the retold version of The Nutcracker in A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs is ridiculously cloyingly sweet, woefully simplistic and seems to also be a pretty strange and messy combination of E.T.A. Hoffmann's original and Alexandre Dumas' adaptation, it makes this story for me almost unreadable, not to mention that I equally totally do prefer my Nativity Stories to be straight from Scripture (so that I really cannot say that I have AT ALL liked A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs on a textual, on a reading level).
For frustratingly and totally annoyingly, the complete lack of ANY source acknowledgments and notes for the retold Christmas themed stories featured in A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs utterly and totally renders me hugely livid, and yes, I actually consider it majorly academically dishonest to in A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs not be listing the Holy Bible and the Gospels of Luke and Matthew as the main sources for the Nativity Story, E.T.A. Hoffmann/Alexandre Dumas for The Nutcracker and Hans Christian Andersen for The Fir Tree retellings, and with this also in fact very much pertaining to the featured Yuletide songs of A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs, since most of them do actually have both composers and lyricists, and which really should be included and pointed out in A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs, as well as all of the songs' verses and the musical score for each carol, and of course also the composition history and traditions of the presented songs. So yes indeed, to say that I have been massively disappointed with A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs is pretty much a major understatements and is also something that the aesthetically pleasant illustrations will not ever be able to remedy and fix. Because aside from the (already mentioned) academically cringe-worthy total lack of even some background information and utilised sources, that in particular the retold version of The Nutcracker in A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs is ridiculously cloyingly sweet, woefully simplistic and seems to also be a pretty strange and messy combination of E.T.A. Hoffmann's original and Alexandre Dumas' adaptation, it makes this story for me almost unreadable, not to mention that I equally totally do prefer my Nativity Stories to be straight from Scripture (so that I really cannot say that I have AT ALL liked A Treasury of Christmas Stories and Songs on a textual, on a reading level).
December 10, 2018
A beautiful collection of Christmas stories and songs. The pictures that go along with each story and song are amazing.
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