ereks mom Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 I want a few to read with EK this week. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cedarmom Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Christmas Carol, which is not exactly short, but not too long either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoriM Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan A. Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 This is hardly classic literature, but we love A Charlie Brown Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in AL Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Not an easy poem, but an extraordinary one. The Journey of the Magi, by TS Eliot Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas in Wales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Another fan of A Child's Christmas in Wales. I have not listened to this, 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Another fan of A Child's Christmas in Wales. I have not listened to this, 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. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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