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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. |
Abstract:
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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