Books with title Factor: 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

Alex, 6, and his little brother Dom, 4, are very busy at Christmas. Lots of cousins and aunties and uncles come to stay at their house. Here we meet them the day before Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve eve as they call it, getting ready for the big day, excited and happy…and a bit tired. Something goes slightly wrong; Alex gets rather cross, Dom gets rather upset and where, oh where is Mum when she’s needed? And where is Lisimba, Dom’s favourite, cuddly, toy lion? But Mum is there, all is fine, everything quickly becomes magical and lovely in this little story, and we leave them in the early hours of Christmas morning wishing Merry Christmas to everyone as the silvery moonlight shines in on them across the snowy garden. Children will see that including everyone is very important, that all contributions and ideas are valuable and that tolerance, understanding, forgiveness, safety, security and love lead to a settled peacefulness and joy where everyone can enjoy the fun of Christmas day. This is a book that will become part of Christmas. The closing sentence is a nod both to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, recalling Tiny Tim’s ‘God Bless Us, everyone’, and to Shirley Hughes’ Lucy and Tom’s Christmas. Merry Christmas to Alex and to Dom and to children everywhere who celebrate this day.

The timeless story of Christmas is beautifully retold through paintings by some of the world’s greatest artists. Borrowing from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s extensive and rich collection, The Christmas Story depicts the Nativity through visual narration with the aid of paintings by, among others, Petrus Christus, Gerard David, and Hans Memling. Gold accents on the book jacket and interior pages make for a glorious and lush book. The artworks, sensitively coupled with excerpts from the King James Version of the Bible, create a book that will be treasured by the entire family for years to come.

The Christmas Story is a novella by Udit Singh.The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. Novella tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Parle and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come.