{"product_id":"2940012508416","title":"Christmas Stories and Legends","description":"Editor Phebe A. Curtiss worried children, especially, might get lost in the day's creeping commercialism. She aimed the book at schools and Sunday schools, and assembled twenty bits of Christmas lore to teach a proper observance. She includes, of course, the Nativity story, but other parts of yesterday's Christmas will be much less familiar to modern readers. The song, \"White Christmas,\" hadn't been written yet, and the expression meant something more than snow. People gave white gifts to symbolize purity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book brings back great-grandfather's Christmas as a gift for today's worriers.  This wonderful collection of stories by numerous known authors includes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Legend of the White Gifts,\u003cbr\u003eHer Birthday Dream,\u003cbr\u003eThe Fir Tree,\u003cbr\u003eThe Little Match Girl,\u003cbr\u003eLittle Piccola,\u003cbr\u003eThe Shepherd's Story,\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of Christmas,\u003cbr\u003eThe Legened of the Christmas Tree,\u003cbr\u003eLittle Jean,\u003cbr\u003eHow the Fir Tree Became the Christmas Tree,\u003cbr\u003eThe Magi in the West and Their Search for The Christ,\u003cbr\u003eLittle Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe,\u003cbr\u003eThe Little Shepherd,\u003cbr\u003eBabouscka,\u003cbr\u003eThe Boy with the Box,\u003cbr\u003eThe Worker in Sandal Wood,\u003cbr\u003eThe Shepherd Who Didn't Go,\u003cbr\u003ePaulina's Christmas,\u003cbr\u003eUnto Us a Child Is Born,\u003cbr\u003eThe Star","brand":"Timeless Classic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163580252400,"sku":"2940012508416","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012508416_p0.jpg?v=1763569872","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012508416","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}