Stories with a Christmas theme
Here are some suggestions for family Christmas listening
A short book, perfect for younger listeners, read by Kara Shallenberg: Christmas Holidays at Merryvale by Alice Hale Burnett.
The Christmas Angel by Abbie Farwell Brown, very much in the spirit of Dickens’ Christmas stories, read by Jan MacGillivray.
The Birds’ Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin, a charming story of Christmas cheer.
Old Christmas by Washington Irving, a tale of the quaint and old English traditions of celebrating Christmas.
Christmas Eve ghost stories Told after Supper by Jerome K. Jerome at his tongue-in-cheek best, read by Ruth Golding.
“If you don’t like Christmas stories, don’t read this one! And if you don’t like dogs I don’t know just what to advise you to do!” says Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, author of Peace On Earth, Good-Will To Dogs, read by Allyson Hester.
A grumpy gent learning the lesson of Christmas in Santa Claus’s Partner by Thomas Nelson Page.
Two versions of The Spirit of Christmas, a group of stories, essays and prayers by Henry van Dyke.
… and no Christmas would be complete without Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, of which we now have two English versions and a Dutch, Een Kerstlied in Proza.
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