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A Christmas Reader

• Why this Issue
• * "A Story of Christmas" by Bill Vaughan
• * "A Stranger in Our Midst" by Celestine Sibley
• "If You Had Been There" by Martin Luther
• "Little Jesus" by Frances Thompson
• "The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner" by Charles Dickens
• The Friendly Beasts
• "My Best Christmas Gift" by Raul Quintanilla
• "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
• "A Hymn of the Nativity" by Richard Crashaw
• "Where Love Is, There God Is Also" by Leo Tolstoy
• "What Can I Give Him?" by Christina Rossetti
• "A Christmas Prayer" by Robert Louis Stevenson
• "Ye Greate Astonishment"

First issued, 1987; reprinted, 1996

A Christmas Collection

• Why This Collection?
• * "Cotton Patch Gospels" by Clarence Jordan
• * "The Holy Night" by Selma Lagerlof
• * "Some Children See Him" by Wihla Hutson
• * "The List of Jeremy Quist" by Carol Greene
• " Cosette" by Victor Hugo
• * "A Wish" by Stephanie Harris
• "O Baby Born in Bethlehem" by Beth Rice Luttrell
• * "Hanukah" by Dalia Hardot Renberg
• * "A Christmas Story" by Katherine Anne Porter
• "Sweet Little Jesus Boy..." by Milo Thronberry
• "Best and Worst Christmas Gifts" (various authors)

Originally published as Alternatives Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 4, edited by Heidi Roy and Milo Thornberry, cover art and lay-out by Kathie Klein. Reissued 1997.

A Christmas Sampler

• Introduction
• How to Say Merry Christmas in 31 Countries
• Flower of the Nativity
• *"Christmas in the Stable," by Astrid Lindgren
• *"Jesous Ahatonhia," by Father Jean de Brebeuf.  English text by J.E. Middleton
  • but see http://www.rivernen.ca/legend_8.htm for better English and French translations, and http://www.pipcom.com/~pepe/huron.php for Middleton's version (of the verses).
• *"Christmas Day in the Morning," by Pearl Buck.
• *"The Little Clockmaker," by Ruth Sawyer.
• "The Christ Child Who Was Too Poor," by Adelee Wendel. 
• *"Carol of the Brown King," by Langston Hughes.
• *"Mary Had a Baby," reprinted from Sing Out! Magazine, vol. 4, #1.
• *"The Three Gifts," by Jane T. Clement.
• *"We Have Seen His Star," by Charles Brady.
• *"There's No Such Thing as a Poor Christmas," by Celestine Sibley. 

Note

All of the above items appear in the printed editions, but for copyright reasons, those marked * do not appear here.

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