A collection of three Christmas stories by Charles Dickens, including "The Cricket on the Hearth," the story of a happy family that is almost destroyed by a jealous old man.
Presents fifteen contemporary Christmas stories, telling tales of how the magic and spirit of the holiday works in the lives of step-families grappling with exes, couples faced with in-law problems, wandering husbands, and troubled children.
An unabridged republication of three Yuletide stories by nineteenth-century author Charles Dickens, including "The Holly-Tree," "The Haunted House," and the title work, a tale of a pleasant and simple home life.
Contains two stories about the spirit of Christmas--one in which a young boy encounters a ghost with a desperate message, and the other featuring a girl whose holiday is saved by an unruly neighbor and a pregnant cat.