Collins Christmas treasury
Nettell, Stephanie1996
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A selection of Christmas stories and poems from around the world. A charmingly illustrated book that will be enjoyed by all ages.
Main title:
Collins Christmas treasury / selected by Stephanie Nettell.
Author:
Nettell, StephaniePenney, Ian, illustrator
Imprint:
London : Collins, 1996
Collation:
159 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.
Audience:
Lower primary
Contents:
A CHILD IS BORN: The Christ Child / by Krikor Naregasti - The Cherry Tree Carol - Christmas Landscape / by Laurie Lee - O Simplicatas / by Madeline L'Engle - A Magic Maid - A Singing in the Air / by James Stephens - Salus Mundi / by Mary Coleridge - Stable Song / by Judith Nicholls - Ramona and the Three Wise Persons (extract from Ramona and Her Father) / by Beverly Cleary - Minstrel’s Song / by Ted Hughs - The Innkeeper's Wife / by Clive Sansom - The Oxen / by Thomas Hardy - What the Donkey Saw / by U.A.Fanthorpe - Mice in the Hay / by Leslie Norris - How Far to Bethlehem? / by Frances Chesterton - The Story of the Star / by Jessie Eleanor Moore - At Nine of the Night I Opened My Door / by Charles Causley - Bah! Humbug! (extract from A Christmas Carol) / by Charles Dickens. THE MIDWINTER FEAST: Good Will to Men-Christmas Greetings in Six Languages / by Dorothy Brown Thompson - Our Joyfull'st Feast / by George Wither - Wassailing Song - Christmas / by John Clare - Bird Surprise - Mistletoe / by Charles Causley - My Pooter Provokes A Dismaying Experiment / by George and Weedon Grossmith - The Best Gift / by Todd Hamilton - Christmas Day / by Roy Fuller - I Remember Yule / by Ogden Nash - Ghosts from a Christmas Past / by John Mole - The Moomins Deal With Christmas / by Tove Jansson - No, Ivy, No - Escoffier Christmas Menu, 1906 - Christmas At The Cratchits' (extract from A Christmas Carol) / by Charles Dickens - Christmas Dinner / by Michael Rosen - Mrs Peppepot's Christmas (extract from Mrs Pepperpot's Year) / by Alf Proysen - Epstein, Spare That Yule Log! / by Ogden Nash - Christmas Is Coming - Christmas Tree / by Richard Eberhart - Winter Poem / by Gerda Mayer - Tim Rabbit's Christmas Tree (extract from The Adventures of No Ordinary Rabbit) / by Alison Uttley - The Christmas Tree / by C. Day Lewis. JOY AND GIVING: As I Sat On a Sunny Bank - Christmas Bells / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Merry Bells of Yule / by Lord Tennyson - Singing in the Streets / by Leonard Clark - The Wicked Singers / by Kit Wright - Just Like Old Times (extract from The Wind in the Willows) / by Kenneth Grahame - Ghost Story / by Dylan Thomas - The Singers / by John Mole - Village Carols Between the Wars (extract from Cider with Rosie) / by Laurie Lee - The Waiting Game / by John Mole - The Tree That Went Mad (extract from The Peculiar Triumph of Professor Branestawn) / by Norman Hunter - A Gift from the Stars / by John Rice - King John's Christmas / by A.A. Milne - Afterthought / by Elizabeth Jennings - Six Things for Christmas / by John May - Mr Edwards Meets Santa Claus (extract from Little House on the Prairie) / by Laura Ingalls Wilder. OTHER PLACES, OTHER WAYS: Australia, 1769 / by Joseph Banks - Patagonia, 1833 / by Charles Darwin - Death Valley, California, 1849 / by Julia Brier - The Arctic, 1872 / by Captain George E. Tyson - Carol for the Last Christmas Eve / by Norman Nicholson - A Carol / by Donald Hall - Innocent's Song / by Charles Causley - Carol / by John Short - Christmas in Biafra (1969) / by Chinua Achebe - Advent 1955 / by John Betjeman / Emily Dickinson - Christmas at the Shelter / by Adele Geras - At Newgrange / by Mary Sullivan - A Forty-niner Christmas / by Hermann J. Sharmann - Christmas Night of '62 / by William Gordon McCabe - An Indomitable Nurse / by Sarah Macnaughtan - Peace Breaks Out on the Front Line / by Sir Edward Hulse - The Burma-Siam Railway, 1943 / by Robert Hardie - Remembering Snow / by R.N. Currey - Christmas in Mexican California / by Jose Ramon Pico - Big Bangs in El Salvador / by P.J. O'Rourke - Santa Claus in Oaxaca / by Richard Eberhart - Christmas Breeze / by John Figuerora - Christmas / by Janet Frame - Celebrations in the Days of Charles II / by Samuel Pepys - A Dickensian Christmas: The Original Article (extract from The Making of Charles Dickens) / by Christopher Hibbert - Moonless Darkness Stands Between / by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
ISBN:
0001980572 (hardback)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
49503
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Junior Fiction | NETTEL | Available |