The Best of Christmas in my Heart Volume 2: Timeless Stories to Warm Your Heart

by Joe L. Wheeler (Compiler)

The second volume of the most loved and requested stories from the Christmas in My Heart series -- compiled by famed author, Joe wheeler.

Joe Wheeler is renowned for bringing the classic stories of Christmas to eager readers, and he continues this tradition with this newly handpicked collection, in an elegantly designed Christmas keepsake, The Best of Christmas in My Heart, Volume 2 .

These time-tested stories are sure to warm the heart of readers of all ages. This special volume also includes personal journaling pages that allow readers to preserve their holiday memories for years to come, so they can recall them with the same joy and happiness as when they first jotted them down. The Best of Christmas in My Heart, Volume 2 is the perfect gift for family, friends, and loved ones, distilling the peace, hope, and love of Christmas into timeless tales that will touch readers' hearts.

This collection awakens wonderful nostalgia in anyone who has ever sat at the feet of a parent or grandparent and been swept up in Christmas stories of old. Now readers can relive that cheerful experience simply with this beautiful holiday treasure.

Genres: Christmas

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

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

[booklady · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although I hadn’t read any of the original Christmas in My Heart series compiled by Joe Wheeler before now, this ‘The Best of’ Volume II makes me wish I had. I also wonder when and where I found this volume which has been on my Holiday shelf forever. Now I’ll be on the look-out for Volume I and the rest.

Mostly contemporary Christmas stories, unabashedly and un-apologetically Christian in theme. Humorous, nostalgic, bittersweet and heartwarming. My favorite way to get in the spirit of the season. Ah! Nothing quite like it!

This one also goes down as a book which needs to be read every year.

[Joy Gerbode · Rating 5 out of 5]

Many wonderful stories, poems, ideas ... wonderful book to read again and again.