From the Book - First edition.
In the week when Christmas comes / Eleanor Farjeon -- Christmas is coming / English rhyme -- Day before Christmas / Marchette Chute -- December / John Updike -- Dimmest and brightest month am I / Christina Rossetti -- Ramona and the three wise persons / Beverly Cleary -- Trouble with pies / David McCord -- The Christmas pudding / Traditional -- Duckle, duckle, daisy / Leroy F. Jackson -- The elves and the shoemaker / The Brothers Grimm -- The puppy who wanted a boy / Jane Thayer -- Little tree / E.E. Cummings -- The birth of Jesus / Luke 2:1-20 -- Away in a manger / attributed to Martin Luther -- What you gonna name that pretty little baby? / Spiritual -- Baboushka / Russian folk tale -- Jingle bells / James Pierpont -- A present for Santa Claus / Carolyn Haywood -- The more it snows / A.A. Milne -- Snowflakes / Marchette Chute -- Merry Christmas / Aileen Fisher -- The Christmas thief / Jay Williams -- Once there was a snowman / Anonymous -- A sled for Christmas / Jack Prelutsky -- The little blue dishes / Anonymous -- Long, long ago / Anonymous -- What can I give Him? / Christina Rossetti -- How far is it to Bethlehem? / Francis A. Chesterton --
The friendly beasts / English carol
Jesus Ahatonhia (Jesus is born) / Father Jean de Bréfeuf
Uncle Wiggly's Christmas / Howard R. Garis
A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore
Carol of the Russian children / Anonymous
The bells / Edgar Allan Poe
We wish you a merry Christmas / English carol
Wassail song / English carol
The Christmas whale / Roger Duvoisin
Thank-you note / Judith Viorst
The tardy Santa Claus / Kate D. Wiggin
A woman named Mrs. S. Claus / J. Patrick Lewis
The three Magi / Pura Belpré
There was a ship a-sailing / English song
Emmet Otter's jug-band Christmas / Russell Hoban
Christmas carol / Sara Teasdale
Shepherd's song at Christmas / Langston Hughes
How we made Christmas / Grey Owl
The twelve days of Christmas / Traditional
A merry literary Christmas / Alice Low
Christmas every day / William Dean Howells
An old Christmas greeting / Anonymous
Merry Christmas / from St. Nicholas magazine
Christmas eve / David McCord
Cobweb Christmas / Shirley Climo
The joy of giving / John Greenleaf Whittier.