Download or read book The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories written by Wendy Cooling and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories is essential Christmas-time reading including classics from all eras. A new collection of Christmas stories, from traditional to real life, humour and most importantly, plenty of the magic of Christmas. Writers range from Charles Dickens to Gillian Cross and Malorie Blackman. Wendy Cooling, a former teacher and Head of the Children's Book Foundation (now Book Trust), works as a freelance book consultant, reviewer and editor. She recently put together the successful millennium collection, CENTURIES OF STORIES. Wendy livesin Hertfordshire.

Download or read book The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories written by Wendy Cooling and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is coming! A delightful collection of stories for Yuletide by some of the finest writers for children which makes a perfect stock-filler Christmas gift. The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories is essential Christmas-time reading including classic and contemporary stories, from traditional to real life, humour and most importantly, the magic of Christmas. Writers range from Charles Dickens to Gillian Cross, Trish Cooke, Malorie Blackman and Jacqueline Wilson.

Download or read book Christmas with the Chrystals Other Stories written by Noel Streatfeild and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas with the Chrystals is a gorgeous short story about how an influx of cheery young cousins at Christmas warms the heart of a haughty grandmother and lights up her chilly home. This very special Yuletide story is accompanied by several Streatfeild Christmas extracts from her many children's novels, including an (almost) never-before-seen sequel chapter to her bestseller Ballet Shoes. There are also recollections of the author's own childhood Christmases (taken from the Noel Streatfeild Christmas Holiday Book).

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories written by Jessica Harrison and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space. Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dylan Thomas, Saki and Chekhov, as well as little-known treasures such as Italo Calvino's wry sideways look at Christmas consumerism, Wolfdietrich Schnurre's story of festive ingenuity in Berlin, Selma Lagerlof's enchanted forest in Sweden, and Irène Nemerovsky's dark family portrait. Featuring santas, ghosts, trolls, unexpected guests, curmudgeons and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time.

Download or read book A Christmas Card written by Paul Theroux and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in a New England snowstorm, a family is sheltered by a mysterious old man who disappears the next morning, leaving behind a magical "Christmas card."

Download or read book Diane Goode s American Christmas written by and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of American poems, songs, and stories with a Christmas theme, including "The Peterkins' Christmas Tree," "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," "Away in a Manger," and "Christmas on the Banks of Plum Creek."

Download or read book Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories written by Bess Streeter Aldrich and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains twelve short Christmas stories about reunited families, fellowship, and restored faith including 'I Remember,' a story about the author's childhood in Iowa.

Download or read book Joy to the World written by Tomie dePaola and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless celebration of Christmas from the legendary Newbery and Caldecott Honor winner Tomie dePaola! This collection unifies three of the incomparable Tomie dePaola’s most beloved Christmas stories into one handsome volume. Vividly portrayed and expertly crafted, The Night of Las Posadas, The Story of the Three Wise Kings, and The Legend of the Poinsettia are sure enchant and mesmerize the whole family during the holiday season.

Download or read book The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 250 nursery rhymes, including both well-known favourites and hidden gems, this collection has something for every child. Beautiful illustrated by Raymond Briggs, the much-loved creator of the Snowman, this revised edition of a famous classic first won the Kate Greenaway in 1966 and is now available again for a whole new generation.

Download or read book Nine Days to Christmas written by Marie Hall Ets and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.

Download or read book The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories written by Sara Corrin and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contained in this book are 14 festive stories for Christmas. The authors featured include Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Noel Streatfeild and Leon Garfield.

Download or read book Castaway Christmas written by Margaret Joyce Baker and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of three English children who find themselves marooned when a rising flood surrounds the cottage where they are to meet their parents for the Christmas holidays. Grades 5-7.

Download or read book This Way to Christmas written by Ruth Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely boy in snowy hill country at Christmas meets a "locked-out fairy" who introduces him to equally lonely neighbors and each tells him a unique story of the Christmas season.

Download or read book Angelina s Christmas Stories written by Katharine Holabird and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angelina's Christmas Stories contains two festive stories in one - a perfect introduction to Angelina Ballerina and all her friends. This delightful story book is the perfect stocking filler for any Angelina Ballerina fan.

Download or read book Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery written by Jenny Colgan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the most wonderful time of the year… and the perfect moment to escape to a charming English village! From the beloved author whose novels are "sheer indulgence from start to finish" (SOPHIE KINSELLA) comes a delightful holiday story — funny, heartfelt, romantic and packed with recipes — perfect for the winter months. In the Cornish coastal village of Mount Polbearne, the Christmas season has arrived. It’s a joyous time for family, friends, and feasting, as decorations sparkle along the town’s winding streets and shop windows glow with festive displays. And in Polly’s Little Beach Street Bakery, the aroma of gingerbread cookies and other treats tempts people in from the cold. Though Polly is busy keeping up with the demands of the season, she still makes time for her beekeeper boyfriend, Huckle. She’s especially happy to be celebrating the holiday this year with him, and can’t wait to cuddle up in front of the fireplace with a cup of eggnog on Christmas Eve. But holiday bliss soon gives way to panic when a storm cuts the village off from the mainland. Now it will take all of the villagers to work together in order to ensure everyone has a happy holiday. Full of heart and humor, Jenny Colgan’s latest novel is an instant Christmastime classic.

Download or read book A Puffin Book of Verse written by Claudia Freedman and published by Penguin Uk. This book was released on 1953 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Remarkable Christmas of the Cobbler s Sons written by Ruth Sawyer and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poor cobbler and his three sons worry about having food for their Christmas feast, until a playful goblin king pays them a visit.