Books with title Matchless: A Christmas Story

It was in October that Mary Chavah burned over the grass of her lawn, and the flame ran free across the place where in Spring her wild flower bed was made. Two weeks later she had there a great patch of purple violets. And all Old Trail Town, which takes account of its neighbours' flowers, of the migratory birds, of eclipses, and the like, came to see the wonder. "Mary Chavah!" said most of the village, "you're the luckiest woman alive. If a miracle was bound to happen, it'd get itself happened to you." "I don't believe in miracles, though," Mary wrote to Jenny Wing. "These come just natural—only we don't know how." "That is miracles," Jenny wrote back. "They do come natural—we don't know how." "At this rate," said Ellen Bourne, one of Mary's neighbours, "you'll be having roses bloom in your yard about Christmas time. For a Christmas present

Christmas is only a few days away. At the North Pole all of Santa’s elves are working busily to make sure that Santa will have all the gifts he needs for his annual trip around the world on Christmas Eve. In the kitchen Mrs. Claus is making her special Christmas Eve cookies for Santa and his workers.Everyone is filled with the excitement of the holiday season–everyone except Santa that is! When Erwin the head elf notices that Santa is not his usual jolly self, he tells Mrs. Claus, and together the two of them set out to discover the cause of Santa’s unhappiness.Will Mrs. Claus and Erwin restore Santa’s holiday spirit? Or will Santa decide not to make his Christmas deliveries to good little boys and girls around the world?To find the answers to these questions, open this book and start reading A Christmas Story!Merry Christmas!

ABOUT THE STORYMiss Mouse is a retired teacher of etiquette for the very young. One day a Spirit of Light gives her a truly special gift.It begins each autumn when she and the neighborhood children (chipmunks, squirrels, foxes, racoons, hedgehogs, mice, etc.) plant seed pods that grow into great, big, bushy plants.Just before Christmas, they all harvest the new seed pods, wrap them in birch bark, and tie them up in silvery and golden spiderwebs.The children load up little red sleighs with the pretty pods and deliver them to their neighbors. Each neighbor picks the pod that is exactly right for them, for once they hold it in their paws it becomes the gift they have always wanted.One autumn day, after the pods are harvested, Miss Mouse breaks a promise she made to the Spirit of Light. Her gift is taken from her and all the seed pods shrivel up.But Mrs. Pokey Hedgehog and other friends of Miss Mouse go to the Trillium Meadow and convince the Spirit of Light to restore Miss Mouse's gift to her, and new pods are harvested in time for Christmas.Join Miss Mouse and her friends as they decorate her tree, savor her root vegetable stew, crunch sweet acorn cakes, and enjoy a New Year's party with ice skating and a lakeside bonfire. Miss Mouses's recipes for pumpkin walnut cookies and honey-vanilla-cinnamon hot chocolate follow her story.ABOUT THE AUTHORKaatri is the pen name of the author who lives in Suquamish, Washington, a village on the shores of Puget Sound, across from Seattle. She began her writing career as a technical writer/editor and continues to edit on a freelance basis. She is close to publishing her next book, "The Moonstone Teardrop," the story of a young boy who has lost his mother's love but regains it with the help of a hermit, his rascally cat, and the spirit of a buck fawn.