The illustrator's Vermont farmhouse and her pets are featured in the illustrations of this well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.

"Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."

In this edition of the life of the little fir tree, the illustrations depict that ill-fated tree as a small child.

One long-ago Christmas, Earl Gibson lost the two things most precious to him: his wife and daughter. Angry and heartbroken, he ended up living on the streets and abandoned any belief he'd once had in God. Ten years later Big Earl meets Gideon, a seven-year-old leukemia patient who believes with all her heart that "Christmas means never having to ask God how much he loves us." Gideon is determined to reach this lonely and hurting man who hates Christmas--and...

The inhabitants of a New England village never make much fuss about Christmas until a new family moves in and celebrates the holiday in a special way.

Always the obedient daughter, Judith Graber watches her younger siblings, helps around the house, and works in her family's store. Judith feels overworked, overlooked, and underappreciated this holiday season. Then her father hires Ben Knox. The "bad boy" of Sugarcreek, Ben left two years ago under a cloud of shame. Now he's back and working side by side with Judith, who steels herself to ignore the sparks that fly between them.

Mr. Jolly keeps the school magically clean and bitter cold, and he's full of surprises, but can he make a miracle happen?

Two children set a trap for Santa Claus but only one of them manages to see him.

In this retelling of the original 1816 German story, a nutcracker under a terrible spell is given to young Marie as a Christmas gift, and when she helps him defeat the Mouse King, breaking the spell, he takes her to visit his kingdom.

Eleven-year-old Juniper sets out on a wild adventure to find her mother and protect a public park just days before Christmas.