Books with title The Before and After Christmas Collection

This is a look at Christmas through excerpts from Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, medieval recipes, poems by John Betjeman and C. Day Lewis. It also includes: a traditional Mummer's play and a Christmas sermon; two Victorian "weepies", "Christmas Day in the Workhouse" and "The Little Match Girl"; and an account of a 16-year-old girl's first married Christmas in 19th-century New York. Christmas music is also included.

A treasury of ideas and activities for celebrating the days before Christmas, and also things to do after the Christmas tree is taken down. Specific activities, including crafts, service projects, and family worship ideas, are included for each day in Advent and through the twelve days of Christmas. In addition, each day offers a Bible passage for reading together. Full-color illustrations bring the text to life and make completing the activities a snap!

Storybook Square presents the definitive collection of classic Christmas stories. Included here are several all-time favorites, including 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (poem by Clement C. Moore), A Christmas Carol (novel by Charles Dickens), The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (novel by L. Frank Baum, who is the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), A Kidnapped Santa Claus (short story by L. Frank Baum), The Little Match Girl (short story by Hans Christian Andersen), and a preview of Jody Studdard's book, The Arctic Flyer.This collection has been specially formatted for e-Readers, and it contains a master table of contents with active links to each story in the collection. In addition, each story has its own table of contents, with active links to each of its individual chapters.With this collection, your Christmas will be merry indeed!

Christmas brings out the best and the worst in us, as can be seen in this evocative anthology. Among what Thomas Love Peacock calls the ""many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas,"" there are eulogies by saints and diatribes from curmudgeons. Here, Christmas is expounded by divines, sung by rustics, deplored by philosophers, and made mystical in stories. This collection includes complete versions of old favorites and new discoveries: a sermon by Lancelot Andrewes, an account of Christmas under the Puritans, a first, poverty-stricken Christmas in turn-of-the-century New York, and a Mummers' play.Adding the final touch is the music--from traditional Christmas carols to Arcangelo Corelli to Benjamin Britten. On this recording, Christmas past brings alive Christmas present.

MP3 CD Format Christmas brings out the best and the worst in us, as can be seen in this evocative anthology. Among what Thomas Love Peacock calls the ""many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas,"" there are eulogies by saints and diatribes from curmudgeons. Here, Christmas is expounded by divines, sung by rustics, deplored by philosophers, and made mystical in stories. This collection includes complete versions of old favorites and new discoveries: a sermon by Lancelot Andrewes, an account of Christmas under the Puritans, a first, poverty-stricken Christmas in turn-of-the-century New York, and a Mummers' play.Adding the final touch is the music--from traditional Christmas carols to Arcangelo Corelli to Benjamin Britten. On this recording, Christmas past brings alive Christmas present.