Christmas in My Heart, A Fourth Treasury: Stories To Share The Spirit Of The Season

by Joe L. Wheeler

The fourth edition of this holiday classic features more inspiring stories of sadness overcome and joy found during the Christmas season. Tour.

Genres: Christmas

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 12, 1999

About the author

Joe Wheeler has been labeled many things: as Father Christmas because of his editing/compiling America’s longest-running Christmas of story series — Christmas in My Heart (now in its 18th season); as one of America’s leading story anthologists (56 story collections by twelve publishing houses); as the world’s foremost authority on life and times of the frontier writer Zane Grey (he is co-founder and executive director of the international Zane Grey’s West Society); as a biographer, having written full-length biographies of Abraham Lincoln and St. Nicholas and shorter biographies of Louisa May Alcott, Abbie Farwell Brown, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Gene Stratton Porter, Grace Richmond, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and Lew Wallace; and as a Renaissance Man because of his encyclopedic interest in everything (popular culture as well as the academic); and his master’s degree in the teaching of History, his master’s degree in English (thesis on Utopian and Dystopian literature), and his Vanderbilt doctorate in English (History of Ideas emphasis).

Because of all these variables, and stirring in his 71 books (and counting), this blog series promises to be unlike any other — and that’s why he titles the series, “UNCHARTED WATERS.”

Reviews

[Mary Z]

I was disappointed. The stories were only so so. Quick easy read but nothing I would rave about.

[Linda]

If you have a little bit of time and want to read a Christmas story or two, this series of books is just for you.

Joe Wheeler has compiled short stories about Christmas into this book and many more.

Great way to help you get into the Christmas spirit!!

[Michell Karnes]

I love this author and his collection of short stories that makes us appreciate the season all the more. This is the fourth in his series and well worth the read anytime but especially at the Christmas season.