THE FAMILY BOOK OF CHRISTMAS SONGS AND STORIES by Charlton, Jim; Shulman, Jason - 1986

New York: Perigee Books - Putnam Publishing, 1986. 208 pp. Oversized. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white drawings and paintings. The songs, complete with sheet music, lyrics and chords, are: All Through the Night; Angels We Have Heard on High; As with Gladness Men of Old; Auld Lang Syne; Away in a Manger; The Boar's Head Carol; Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella; The Cherry Tree Carol; Christ Was Born on Christmas Day; Christmas Is Coming; Coventry Carol; Deck the Halls; Ding Dong Merrily on High; The First Noel; The Friendly Beasts; Fum Fum Fum; God Rest You Merry Gentlemen; Good Christian Men Rejoice; Good King Wenceslas; Go Tell It on the Mountain; Hark the Herald Angels Sing; He Is Born, the Divine Christ Child; Here We Come A-Caroling; The Holly and the Ivy; I Saw Three Ships; I Wonder as I Wander; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; Jingle Bells; Jolly Old Saint Nicholas; Joy to the World; Lo How a Rose; The Moon Shines Bright; March of the Toys; Mary Had a Baby; Masters in This Hall; O Christmas Tree; O Come All Ye Faithful; O Come O Come Emmanuel; O Holy Night; O Little Town of Bethleham; Pat a Pan; Silent Night; Toyland; The Twelve Days of Christmas; Up on the Housetop; We Three Kings; We Wish You a Merry Christmas; What Child Is This; and While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks. The stories and poems are: Is There a Santa Claus - Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus from the New York Sun; Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen; Cock Crow at Christmas by William Shakespeare; The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen; Jesus by Jason Shulman; A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum; The Friendly Beasts - from 12th Century France; Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells; Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale; The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry; Christmas in a Village by Johh Clare; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle; Christmas Greeting from a Fairy to a Child by Lewis Carroll; Christmas at Orchard House by Louisa May Alcott; Christmas and New Year Bells by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; The Christmas Monks by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; Christmas Pie by George Wither; Christmas at Dingley Dell by Charles Dickens; Christmas in the Olden Time by Sir Walter Scott; The Legend of the Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlof; Whence Comes This Rush of Wings - French carol from Bas Quercy; Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson; and The Symbol and the Saint by Eugene Field.. Second Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to. Book.