christmas stories

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Sophie writes a letter home each of the twelve days she spends exploring the state of Colorado at Christmastime, as her cousin Zach shows her everything from a lark bunting in a blue spruce sapling to twelve skiers gliding over snow. Includes facts about Colorado.

As Christmas nears, Amy and her friends in the Critter Club try to find a home for two adorable guinea pigs.

When Katie draws Andrew's name in the first-grade Christmas gift exchange, she decides not to give him a present because he has said mean things about her reindeer sweater.

The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him. Presented in Spanish.

A teddy bear in the toy department of a big store receives a new name and a new home from Santa.

Twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents on the farm at Eagle Pond, where Gramp milks the cows and entertains his grandson by speaking rhymed pieces; Donnie's eyes are drawn to an empty stall that houses a graceful, cobwebby sleigh that no one uses anymore, and when the gifts are exchanged and the remains of the Christmas feast put away, the air becomes heavy with fine snowflakes and everyone wonders, how will Donnie get back to his parents on time.

With the help of the elves, Kris Kringle and his wife, Rebecca, deliver toys to all the children in the world on Christmas Eve.

Siblings Jesse, an optimist, and Maggie, who does not believe in anything she cannot see or touch, find themselves trapped in a magical kingdom where they must embark on a journey beyond the Lands of Magma to find the Wizard of Iz to find their way home again.