From the Book - First U.S. edition
The star money (a folktale from Germany)
O Christmas tree (a song from Germany)
Why the Christmas tree keeps its leaves (a very old folktale)
Speakin' o' Christmas (a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar)
The forest witch (a fairy tale from Denmark)
The twelve days of Christmas (a traditional song)
The Christmas truce (a true story from 1914)
The elves and the shoemaker (an abridged fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm)
Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas (an abridged tale by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
The first Christmas in space: Apollo 8 (a true story from 1968)
A Christmas carol (abridged extract from a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
The Christmas cuckoo (an abridged tale by Frances Browne)
The cat on Dovrefell (a folktale from Norway)
The snow queen (an abridged fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen)
The little girl and the winter whirlwinds (a folktale from Bulgaria)
The mitten (a reimagining of a folktale from Ukraine)
Mole's Christmas (an abridged extract from The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame)
The nutcracker (an abridged tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann)
The legend of Olentzero (a folktale from Spain)
A Christmas inspiration (an abridged tale by Lucy Maud Montgomery)
The story of the spider and the Christmas tree (a folktale from Ukraine)
The velveteen rabbit (an abridged extract from the story by Margery Williams)
An Antarctic Christmas (a true story from 1902)
The night before Christmas (a poem by Clement Clarke Moore)
