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The Oxford book of Christmas stories

Author: Dennis Pepper
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This is an anthology of thirty stories by many best-loved writers, such as Charles Dickens, Laurie Lee, Sue Townsend, Jacqueline Wilson, and Geraldine McCaughrean. Illustrations in colour and black and white by a range of artists complement the text. This is a treasury that gives a wide-ranging feel of Christmas and the seasonal celebrations that surround it, and one that will be read and enjoyed year after year.
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Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dennis Pepper
ISBN: 0192781618 9780192781611
OCLC Number: 59434584
Description: 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents: Grandfather Frost / James Riordan --
Snow-man / Mabel Marlowe --
Mr. Pickwick on the ice / Charles Dickens --
Sliding / Leslie Norris --
Father Christmas and Father Christmas / David Henry Wilson --
Visit to the bank / Shirley Jackson --
Burper and the magic lamp / Robert Leeson --
Brown baby / Gwen Grant --
Carol-barking / Laurie Lee --
Welcome, Yule / Jan Mark --
Lot of mince-pies / Robert Swindells --
Ghost alarm / Nicholas Fisk --
Christmas in the rectory / Catherine Storr --
Christmas pudding improved with keeping / Philippa Pearce --
Ivy man / John Gordon --
Christmas gift / Hugh Oliver --
Call me Blessed / Jacqueline Wilson --
Christmas present / Kathleen Hersom --
Get lost / Robin Klein --
Present for Grannie Fox / Norman Smithson --
Adrian Mole's Christmas / Sue Townsend --
Lost boy / George Mackay Brown --
Christmas morning / Frank O'Connor --
Assault on Santa Claus / Timothy Callender --
Anarchist's pudding / Geraldine McCaughrean --
Christmas in the floods / Olaf Ruhen --
Christmas eve / Harry Macfie --
Charcoal burner / Gerald Kersh --
Lost leader / Dennis Hamley --
Court martial / Charles C. O'Connell.
Other Titles: Christmas stories.
Responsibility: edited by Dennis Pepper.

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This is an anthology of thirty stories by many best-loved writers, such as Charles Dickens, Laurie Lee, Sue Townsend, Jacqueline Wilson, and Geraldine McCaughrean. Illustrations in colour and black and white by a range of artists complement the text. This is a treasury that gives a wide-ranging feel of Christmas and the seasonal celebrations that surround it, and one that will be read and enjoyed year after year.

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