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  2. Sears Wish Book - Wikipedia

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    The Sears Wish Book was a popular Christmas -themed catalog released annually by the American department store chain Sears in August or September. The catalog contained toys and other holiday-related merchandise. The first Sears Wish Book was published in 1933 [ 1] and was a separate catalog from the annual Sears Christmas catalog.

  3. Great Expectations - Wikipedia

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    Text. Great Expectations at Wikisource. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.

  4. Little House in the Big Woods - Wikipedia

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    Little House in the Big Woods is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper in 1932 (reviewed in June). [ 3] It was Wilder's first book published and it inaugurated her Little House series. It is based on memories of her early childhood in the Big Woods near Pepin, Wisconsin, in the early 1870s.

  5. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus - Wikipedia

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    The story takes place in the Forest of Burzee and nearby lands. Baum pictures the forest as a mighty and grand forest, with "big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it;" a place of "queer, gnarled limbs" and "bushy foliage" where the rare sunbeams cast "weird and curious shadows over the mosses, the lichens ...

  6. Adventures from the Book of Virtues - Wikipedia

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    December 17, 2000. ( 2000-12-17) Adventures from the Book of Virtues is an American animated children's television series based on the books The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories, and The Children's Book of Virtues, both by William Bennett, who served as Secretary of Education under President Ronald Reagan. [ 1]

  7. The Polar Express - Wikipedia

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    Followed by. The Stranger. The Polar Express is a 1985 fantasy children's picture book written and illustrated by American author Chris Van Allsburg. The book is now widely considered to be a classic Christmas story for young children. [ a] It was praised for its detailed illustrations and calm, relaxing storyline.

  8. A Christmas Carol - Wikipedia

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    A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob ...

  9. The Lump of Coal - Wikipedia

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    The Lump of Coal. " The Lump of Coal " is a Christmas short story written by Lemony Snicket and illustrated by Brett Helquist. Originally published in the December 10–12, 2004 issue of the now-defunct magazine USA Weekend, [ 1] it was re-released as a stand-alone book in 2008. It is meant to parody traditional children's Christmas stories, à ...