After a few false starts, Teeka discovers the best way to get Santa's reindeer ready for Christmas Eve.

A child relates how the family celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah, enjoying the rich traditions of both religions.

When Stella gets the sudden idea to go caroling, she has a little trouble getting someone to join her. Her brother, Frank, is not good at spontaneity. The Watsons are very involved in a precarious fruitcake attempt (but happy to send their pig, Mercy, out for the occasion). Eugenia Lincoln declines, a bit rudely, to accompany on her accordion, and Horace Broom is too busy studying planetary movement. Will Stella need to sing by herself -- with enthusiastic...

A child anticipates the arrival of an old man in red, smelling of pine, spreading crinkling presents late at night.

A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.

In the fall of 1909, Lucy gets an early start on making Christmas presents for her family and friends, which they will open at the church's Christmas program.

Dasher is an adventurous young reindeer with a wish in her heart. She spends her days with her family under the hot sun in a traveling circus, but she longs for a different life -- one where there is snow beneath her hooves and the North Star above her head. One day, when the opportunity arises, Dasher seizes her destiny and takes off in pursuit of the life she wants to live. It's not long before she meets a nice man in a red suit with a horse-drawn...

A collection of stories about Christmas, by Newbery Award-winning authors such as Eleanor Estes, E.L. Konigsburg, Madeleine L'Engle, and Katherine Paterson.

When Petey the puppy decides that he wants a boy for Christmas, he discovers that he must go out and find one on his own.