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...

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

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

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

The widow McDowell and her seven-year-old son Thomas ask the gruff Jonathan Toomey, the best wood-carver in the valley, to carve the figures for a Christmas creche.

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

Angelina and her cousin Henry help bring Christmas to a lonely old postman.

Woodland creature Stickler merrily wanders the forest delivering Christmas presents to his friends.

Mr. Willowby's Christmas tree is too tall, so he trims off the top and gives the top to the upstairs maid for her tree, and she finds it too tall, so she cuts off the top, which the gardener uses for his tree, but it is too tall.

Having slept past Easter, the Easter bunny tries to distribute his eggs on Mother's Day, the Fourth of July, and Halloween, but no one is interested. At Christmas time it is Santa who gets him back on track.