The first Christmas. The Christmas story ; The three wise men
Stories and tales. Papa Panov's special Christmas / Leo Tolstoy ; Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus / Francis Pharcellus Church ; The adventure of the blue carbuncle / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; The elves and the shoemaker / Brother's Grimm ; Keeping Christmas / Henry Van Dyke ; Little Women, a merry Christmas / Luisa May Alcott ; The brownie's Xmas / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ; Uncle Richard's Christmas Dinner / Lucy Maud Montgomery ; 'Twas the night before Christmas / Clement Clarke Moore ; A letter from Santa Claus / Mark Twain
Songs. The first noel ; Silent night ; O come, all ye faithful ; God rest you merry, Gentlemen ; Hark! the herald angels sing ; We wish you a merry Christmas ; Jingle bells ; O Christmas tree ; Up on the housetop ; The twelve days of Christmas
Poems. Joy to the world / Isaac Watts ; December songs / Lee Bennett Hopkins ; Jack Frost / Helen Bayley Davis ; Winter morning poem / Ogden Nash ; Thaw / Eunice Tietjens ; Minstrels: a Christmas poem / William Wordsworth ; The boulevard Montmartre on a winter morning / Marilyn Singer ; Christmas is coming / Anonymous ; Christmas eve / Christina Rossetti ; Blow, blow, thou winter wind ; Christmas / H.P. Lovecraft ; On a day in Gary, Indiana, in the year of the moon walk / J. Patrick Lewis ; Winter time / Robert Lewis Stevenson ; Christmas carol / Paul Laurence Dunbar ; Christmas in summer / Alma Flor Ada ; little tree / E.E. Cummings ; It is the time of rain and snow / Izumi Shikibu ; Are you ready for Christmas? / Naomi Shihab Nye ; Christmas laughter / Nikki Giovanni ; Christmas cherries / Janet S. Wong
Recipes. No-bake goat cheese cheesecake with gingered pears / Yvette van Boven ; Rum raisin semifreddo with tangerine caramel and hazelnut brittle / Yotam Ottolenghi ; Cranberry-thyme shortbread / Erin Gleeson ; English toffee / Randy Eastman ; Turkey pot pie / Fred Sabo ; Beef shepherd's pie / Fred Sabo.
