The children's book of Christmas

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But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Isr...

Christmas was not always “Merry Christmas” in old England, for at one time a strong effort was made to do away with the holiday entirely, after some of the older ways of celebra...

The old mysteries, quaint plays in which long ago the peasants of Southern France acted the simple stories of the adoration of the Babe by the angels, the shepherds, and the Wis...

If you were in Mexico the week before Christmas you would not find one Christmas tree, unless it were in some town where Americans have been living for a good while. But everywh...

Almost all the wooden toys come from Germany, where peasants in the mountains of the Tyrol and Bavaria still make them by hand. A herd-boy on the hillside will see that his catt...

Write, “This is the baby’s stocking That hangs in the corner here; You never have seen her, Santa, For she only came this year; But she’s just the blessedest baby! And now befor...

But no one could tell her the way to go, and they all said, “Farther on, Babouscka, farther on.” So she travelled on, and on, and on for years and years—but she never found the...