Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old

by Henry Van Dyke, Miriam LeBlanc (Compiler), Pearl S. Buck, Beatrice Joy Chute, Ruth Sawyer

Overview

"If you’re giving one book for Christmas, make it this one." —Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud Handbook

They are some of the warmest childhood memories, those unhurried evenings around the fireplace, Christmas tree, or dinner table, when there was time for a story. Now, with this collection, you can keep the story-telling tradition alive in your family, and pass it on to your children or grandchildren.

Home for Christmas includes twenty time-honored tales. Several are by world-famous authors; others are little-known treasures translated from other languages. Selected for their literary quality and spiritual integrity, they will resonate with readers of all ages, year after year.

With original woodcuts by David Klein

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874860313
Publisher:	Plough Publishing House, The
Publication date:	10/05/2021
Pages:	339
Sales rank:	271,740
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

Brother Robber - Helene Christaller Three Young Kings - George Sumner Albee Transfiguration - Madeleine L’Engle The Cribmaker’s Trip to Heaven - Reimmichl The Guest - Nikolai S. Lesskov Christmas Day in the Morning - Pearl S. Buck The Other Wise Man - Henry van Dyke The Miraculous Staircase - Arthur Gordon No Room in the Inn - Katherine Paterson The Chess Player - Ger Koopman The Christmas Lie - Dorothy Thomas The Riders of St. Nicholas - Jack Schaefer Grandfather’s Stories - Ernst Wiechert The Vexation of Barney Hatch - B. J. Chute The Empty Cup - Opal Menius The Well of the Star - Elizabeth Goudge A Certain Small Shepherd - Rebecca Caudill The Carpenter’s Christmas - Peter K. Rosegger What the Kings Brought - Ruth Sawyer The Christmas Rose - Selma Lagerlöf

Editorial Reviews

If you’re giving one book for Christmas, make it this one. —Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud Handbook

This is undoubtedly the most literary collection of Christmas stories to be published this season. The editors at Plough have taken a conservative approach, eschewing sentimental claptrap in favor of classic, elegant writing. There are some standard-bearers here, including Henry van Dyke's enduring yarn The Other Wise Man and Pearl S. Buck's gentle and touching story Christmas Day in the Morning. Some contributions are deeply theological (Madeleine L'Engle's Transfiguration) while others offer the dark, discerning cadences of a timeless fable (Selma Lagerlof's The Christmas Rose). The collection has an international flavor, with stories set in Cuba, Germany, Siberia, Palestine, Denmark and Spain, as well as in Vermont and New York City. Readers who crave literary excellence as well as a heartwarming Christmas message will relish this carefully selected and intelligent anthology. —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

This is undoubtedly the most literary collection of Christmas stories to be published this season. The editors at Plough have taken a conservative approach, eschewing sentimental claptrap in favor of classic, elegant writing. There are some standard-bearers here, including Henry van Dyke's enduring yarn "The Other Wise Man" and Pearl S. Buck's gentle and touching story "Christmas Day in the Morning." Some contributions are deeply theological (Madeleine L'Engle's "Transfiguration") while others offer the dark, discerning cadences of a timeless fable (Selma Lagerlof's "The Christmas Rose"). The collection has an international flavor, with stories set in Cuba, Germany, Siberia, Palestine, Denmark and Spain, as well as in Vermont and New York City. Readers who crave literary excellence as well as a heartwarming Christmas message will relish this carefully selected and intelligent anthology. (Sept.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

If you’re giving one book for Christmas, make it this one.

Jim Trelease