Besides "Gift of the Magi", what are your favorite Christmas short stories?

[ereks mom]

I want a few to read with EK this week. Thanks!

[Cedarmom]

Christmas Carol, which is not exactly short, but not too long either.

[LoriM]

Not a short story, but a long poem: "Annie & Willie's Prayer" by Sophia P. Snow. I read it to my children every year. (c:

[Ellie]

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. It was originally written as a short story and published in a magazine (McCall's, I think); later the author expanded it into a short book. I don't know if the magazine version is still available anywhere, but you can still read the book in one or two sittings.

[Susan A.]

This is hardly classic literature, but we love A Charlie Brown Christmas.

[Michelle in AL]

A Christmas Memory by Truman Caopte~you can read this online by googling the title (it's a geocities website).
Charles Dickens wrote several Christmas short stories. I used A Child Dreams of a Star, but while it's listed as one of his short stories, it doesn't actually mention Christmas.
We contrasted the above story with The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen. I have a lesson written up using both of these stories on my Omnibus blog listed below.

[Laura Corin]

Not an easy poem, but an extraordinary one. The Journey of the Magi, by TS Eliot (http://www.blight.com/~sparkle/poems/magi.html)

Laura

[Laurie]

Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas in Wales

[Jane in NC]

Another fan of A Child's Christmas in Wales. I have not listened to this (http://archive.salon.com/audio/fiction/2000/12/22/dylan_thomas/), but it is an audio download of Dylan Thomas reading his work.

Among my favorite Christmas stories are those by the English author Miss Read, notably The Christmas Mouse, Village Christmas and No Holly for Miss Quinn. Miss Read can probably best be compared to an American author whom she profoundly influenced, Jan Karon, but I prefer Miss Read's tales of small town life in England.

Who here has read another Dickens' Christmas story, Cricket on the Hearth? It is sitting on my shelf but I have never opened it.

Jane

[Laurie]

Another fan of A Child's Christmas in Wales. I have not listened to this (http://archive.salon.com/audio/fiction/2000/12/22/dylan_thomas/), but it is an audio download of Dylan Thomas reading his work.



He reads this poem plus a few others on the cd that we have. We also have the dramatized version of A Child's Christmas in Wales on dvd which runs a little under an hour. :)