The Children's Book of Christmas Stories

Starts strong with The Fezziwig Christmas Party, got maudlin with Andersen's The Fir Tree, and then . . . piddled about with some of the most banal, maudlin, or downright weird copyright free Christmas stories I have ever heard. So many children giving up their only shoe or bent penny to an even poo......more

Let me start off by saying I didn’t read all the stories in this collection. Some I’d already read and wasn’t interested in rereading, others I wasn’t interested at all in. So I’m only going to be reviewing the stories I did read. I'm just rating it 3 stars because of all the stories I skipped. The T......more

4.5 stars Audible sale (#6 of 40) 8 hours 35 min. Narrated by Daniel Thomas May (A+) This is a collection of 32 short stories written by various English, American, and Canadian writers from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Yes, included were two short pieces of "A Christmas Carol" by C. Dickens and......more

This book had some really nice Christmas stories. The book was put together in the early 1900s. There was a story from the time of King James of England in the 1600s, and a story placed near Trenton New Jersey in 1776, during the American Revolution. The language usage was interesting, as were the t......more

One of the free Christmas Audible Plus offerings--the girls and I listened to this collection while working on puzzles. The quality of the stories varied, and the narrator was solid but not outstanding. It made for a nice accompaniment to other activities, but didn't stand out as particularly memora......more