A short and inspirational work by Charles Dickens written as a Christmas story. Outshined by Dickens much more well known Christmas story, this short story has received scant notice. Yet I found it most delightful and comforting and can heartily recommend it. Written in the first person, Dickens tell of being a "poor traveller," and discovering a humble inn during his travels. Set up as a charitable hostel by a gentlemen deceased over a century previously,...

A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.

Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past.
He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw's phantom twin and is "an awful likeness of himself...with his features, and his bright eyes, and his grizzled hair, and dressed in the gloomy shadow of his dress..." This specter appears and proposes to Redlaw that he can allow him to "forget the sorrow, wrong, and trouble you have

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A collection of poetry, including King John's Christmas, Sneezles, Us Two, Cradle Song, and other poems from the life and imagination of a small child.

A human foundling child, adopted by a wood-nymph and raised by the creatures who inhabit a magical forest, grows up to be the immortal Santa Claus.

Christmas is a magical time when we all remember the wonder of the world in the imagination of the child. Revisit timeless favorites in Classic Christmas Stories for Children. Short stories from Hans Christian Andersen, Margery Williams Blanco, Susan Coolidge, Francois Copper, W.H. Corning, Charles Dickens, Ruth Sawyer Durand, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Ruth Lamb, F.E. Mann, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Clement C. Moore, Beatrix Potter, Katherine Pyle...

One of a series of Christmas-themed short stories that were serialized in Charles Dickens' own "Household Words" journal, "The Holly Tree Inn," (1859) uses the loneliness of the wayfaring traveler as a prism through which to examine society. A timeless reflection on the deeper meaning of the holiday, this holiday classic is the perfect fireside read.

A Kidnapped Santa Claus is a Christmas-themed short story written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz, it has been called "one of Baum's most beautiful stories" and constitutes an influential contribution to the mythology of Christmas. A Kidnapped Santa Claus was first published in the December 1904 edition of The Delineator, the women's magazine that would print Baum's Animal Fairy Tales in the following year. The magazine...

What does little Pookie want to be for Halloween this year? It's so hard to choose.

Two young bunnies learn about the customs of Hanukkah from their parents and grandparents before they light the menorah, eat potato latkes, and play dreidel.