| Description |
160 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
The first Christmas --; The Christmas Story ; The three wise men -- Stories and tales --; Pap Panov's special Christmas / Leo Tolstoy ; Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus / Francis Pharcellus Church ; The adventure of the blue carbuncle / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; The elves and the shoemaker / Brothers Grimm ; Keeping Christmas / Henry Van Dyke ; Little women, a merry Christmas / Louisa May Alcott ; The Brownie's Xmas / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ; Uncle Richard's Christmas dinner / Lucy Maud Montgomery ; 'Twas the night before Christmas / Clement Clarke Moore ; A letter from Santa Claus / Mark Twain -- Songs --; The first Noel ; Silent Night ; O come, all ye faithful ; God rest you merry, gentlemen ; Hark! the Herald Angels sing ; We wish you a merry Christmas ; Jingle bells ; O Christmas Tree ; Up on the housetop ; The twelve days of Christmas -- Poems -- Joy to the world / Isaac Watts ; December songs / Lee Bennett Hopkins ; Jack Frost / Winter morning poem / Ogden Nash ; Thaw / Eunice Tietjens ; Minstrels: a Christmas poem / William Wordsworth ; The Coulevard Montmartre on a winter morning / Marilyn Singer ; Christmas is coming / Anonymous ; Christmas Eve / christina Rossetti ; Blow, blow, thou winter wind / William Shakespeare ; Christmas / H.P. Lovecraft ; On a day in Gary, Indiana, in the year of the moon walk / J. Patrick Lewis ; Winter time / Robert Louis Stevenson ; Christmas Carol / Paul Laurence Dunbar ; Christmas in summer / Alma Flor Ada ; Little tree / E. E. Cummings ; It is the time of rain and snow / Izumi Shikibu ; Are you ready for Christmas / Naomi Shihar Nye ; Christmas Laughter / Nikki Giovanni ; Christmas cherries / Janet S. Wong -- Recipes -- No-bake goat cheese cheesecake with gingerbread pears / Yvette Van Boven ; Rum raisin semifreddo with tangerine caramel and hazelut brittle / Yotam Ottolenghi ; Cranberry-thyme shortbread / Erin Gleeson ; English toffee / Randy Eastman ; Turkey pot pie / Fred Sabo ; Beef shepherd's pie / Fred Sabo. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
"It's the most wonderful time of the year, and this richly illustrated treasury celebrates everything there is to love about the holiday season! It's filled with favorite Christmas stories and songs as well as original poems from Lee Bennett Hopkins, Naomi Shihab Nye, and others; original recipes from Erin Gleeson, Yvette van Boven, and Yotam Ottolenghi; and other holiday trappings. All the artwork is from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, ranging from religious paintings depicting the Nativity, to twentieth-century illustrations showing Santa Claus, to wintry scenes of snowy landscapes and ice skaters. With beautiful art and joyful text, this is a wonderful book for the entire family to share"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Christmas.
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Christmas music.
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Christmas poetry.
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Christmas cooking.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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At head of title: Metropolitan museum of art |
| ISBN |
9781419737497 |
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141973749X |
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