The Christmas Collection: Christmas Traditions, Christmas Carols, the Christmas Story, Christmas Songs and Poems - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856978338 ISBN 13: 9781856978330

Publisher: Kingfisher Books, 1992

Synopsis

Includes four illustrated books--Christmas Traditions, The Christmas Story, Christmas Carols, and Christmas Songs and Poems--in a festively decorated gift box designed for stocking stuffing.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Like a Christmas stocking, this boxed set of four small books contains a happy assortment of pleasing surprises. Festive endpapers and holly-and-ivy-trimmed covers adorn each volume; within, delicate watercolors or cathedral-motif borders occupy margins, while welcome old chestnuts as well as worthy novelties comprise the contents. Christmas Traditions , although heavily weighted toward the publisher's original British audience (we hear much about the dessert preferences of legendary English kings and queens, Boxing Day, etc.), lightly wears its dense compendium of holiday lore. In Christmas Carols , out of the ordinary selections like Christina Rossetti's "In the Bleak Midwinter" relieve the familiar rounds of "God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen." Similarly, standbys like "The Twelve Days of Christmas" accompany less predictable entries, including works by Tennyson and Kenneth Grahame, in Christmas Songs & Poems . The fourth book, The Christmas Story , interweaves Clarke's graceful retelling of the Nativity story with poems and prayers. Each book is only 24 pages long, but together the set conveys the holiday's diverse aspects. All ages .
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About this edition

• Publisher: Kingfisher Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1856978338
• ISBN 13: 9781856978330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 4