Favourite Christmas Stories from Fireside Al

The stories and poems included are

Charles Dickens: Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse
Michael Bond: Paddington's Christmas
Margaret Atwood: The Santa Claus Trap
Maxim Gorky: Christmas Phantoms
Recipe: A Gingerbread House
Thomas Hardy: The Thieves Who Couldn't Stop Sneezing
Lillian Eugenia Smith: Christmas Kitchen Fifty Years Ago
Frederick Forsyth: The Shepherd
Patrick Bronte: The Cottager's Dinner
Laurence Housman: The Lovely Messengers
E. Lynn Linton: The Old Lady's Story
David Weale: The True Meaning of Crumbfest
Recipe: Karl's Christmas Cake
Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince
W.O. Mitchell: Brian's Skates
Nikos Kazantzakis: In Calabria
Elizabeth Wetherell and Amy Lothrop: The Story of the Christmas Stocking
Gillian Ferns: Christmas
Emily Carr: A Little Town and a Little Girl
Charles Dickens: Pickwick on Ice
Recipe: Bishop's Punch
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Snow Image
Carol-Anne McCarthy: Gritibaenz (Recipe)
Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas in Wales
Stephen Leacock: Hoodoo McFiggan's Christmas
George MacDonald: Papa's Story
Alphonse Daudet: The Three Low Masses
Recipe: Reveillon Tourtiere and The Morton Thompson Turkey
Robert Louis Stevenson: Markheim
Warren Clements: A Puzzling Christmas Gift
Conor Cruise O'Brien: Long Day's Journey into Prayer
Anonymous: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
O. Henry: The Gift of the Magi
Thomas Hardy: The Oxen