A Christmas Treasury

by Stephanie Nettell (Editor), Ian Penney (Artist)

A collection of more than eighty poems, stories, letters, and memoirs, gathered in this attractive and compact volume, provides a wonderful mixture of familiar, unexpected, and completely new material for the Christmas holidays.

Genres: Christmas

Hardcover

First published November 4, 1996

Reviews

[SBC]

A beautiful large hardcover book, with Christmas stories selected by Stephanie Nettell and illustrated by Ian Penney. Published by HarperCollins in 1996.

Contents

Introduction - short 1 page intro by editor

A Child is Born - 8 poems + Ramona and the Three Wise Persons (Beverly Cleary extract) + 8 more poems + Bah! Humbug! (Charles Dickens extract)

The Midwinter Feast - 6 poems + Mr Pooter Provokes a Dismaying Experiment + 4 poems + The Moomins Deal with Christmas (Tove Jansson) + 2 poems + Christmas at the Cratchits' (Dickens) + 1 poem + Mrs Pepperpot's Christmas (Alf Proysen/Marianne Helweg) + 4 poems + Tim Rabbit's Christmas Tree (Uttley) + 1 poem

Joy and Giving - 5 poems + Just Like Old Times (Grahame) + 2 poems + Village Carols Between the Wars (Laurie Lee) + The Waiting Game (Poem/John Mole) + The Tree that Went Mad (Norman Hunter) + 4 poems + Mr Edwards Meets Santa Clause (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

Other Places, Other Ways - Australia, 1769; Patagonia, 1833; Death Valley, California, 1849; The Arctic, 1872; 9 poems; A Forty-Niner Christmas; Christmas Night of '62 (Poem/McCabe); An Indomitable Nurse; Peace Breaks Out on the Front Line; The Burma-Siam Railway, 1943; Remembering Snow (Poem/Currey); Christmas in Mexican California; Big Bangs in El Salvador; 3 poems; Celebrations in the Days of Charles II (Pepys); A Dickensian Christmas: The Original Article (Hibbert); Moonless Darkness Stands Between (Poem/Hopkins),