This book is a collection of 40 short Christmas stories by various authors. Some stories have been adapted from the bible. Each of the stories is full of the true Christmas spirit, is over a century old, and has won the approval of thousands of children over this time. These timeless favorite classics have been written by such famous authors as Charles Dickens, and Hans Christian Andersen. It is hoped that the collection will prove equally entertaining to today's children. Christmas Stories Included: - Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse by Charles Dickens The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner by Charles Dickens The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen Old Father Christmas by J.H. Ewing Papa Panov's Special Christmas by Leo Tolstoy How the Fir Tree Became the Christmas Tree by Aunt Hede The Christmas Masquerade by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry The First New England Christmas by G.L. Stone and M. G. Fickett A Christmas Star by Katherine Pyle Little Piccola by Mrs. Celia Thaxter A Story of the Christ-Child by Elizabeth Harkison Christmas in the Alley by Olive Thorne Miller Little Girl's Christmas by Winnifred E. Lincoln The Voyage of the Wee Red Cap by Ruth Sawyer Durand The Legend of Babouscka by Adapted from Russian Legend Christmas in the Barn by F. Arnstein The Telltale Tile by Olive Thorne Miller The First Christmas Tree by Lucy Wheelock Christmas on Big Rattle by Theodore Goodridge Roberts How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats by Elia W. Peattie Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Golden Cobwebs by R. H. Schauffler Why the Chimes Rang by Raymond MC Alden Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe by Elizabeth Harrison Little Wolff's Wooden Shoes by Francois Coppee A Christmas Fairy by John Strange Winter The Birds' Christmas by F.E. Mann The Elves and the Shoemaker by Margaret Hunt Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton The Greatest of These by Joseph Mills Hanson The Little Sister's Vacation by Winifred M. Kirkland Mr. Bluff's Experiences of Holidays by Oliver Bell Bunce The Philanthropist's Christmas by James Weber Linn A Christmas Matinee by Mrs. M.A.L. Lane The Shepherds and the Angels by Adapted from the Bible Toinette and the Elves by Susan Coolidge Christmas Under the Snow by Olive Thorne Miller The Queerest Christmas by Grace Margaret Gallaher Master Sandy's Snapdragon by Eldridge S. Brooks RELATED KEYWORDS: - christmas story collection christmas books for kids christmas books illustrated christmas books for children christmas stories christmas stories for children kids christmas stories christmas story book illustrated christmas stories for kids christmas stories for kids