Best of
Christmas

1985

The Biggest, Most Beautiful Christmas Tree


Amye Rosenberg - 1985
    Residents of a great fir tree in a thick forest make their home noticeable in hopes that Santa will come for his first visit to them.

The Donkey's Dream


Barbara Helen Berger - 1985
    He carried the Virgin Mary to Bethlehem on the night she gave birth. Along the way he dreamed he was carrying a city, a ship, a fountain, and a rose. He dreamed he was carrying a lady full of heaven--and he was. Barbara Helen Berger's glowing artwork and lyrical text perfectly convey the beauty and majesty of the story of the Nativity.

The Mood of Christmas & Other Celebrations


Howard Thurman - 1985
    Features include the poem, "The Work of Christmas," "When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone...The Work of Christmas begins..."; and "I Will Light Candles This Christmas," "Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage for fears ever present, Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days...""I know that the experiences of unity in human relations are more compelling than the concepts, the fears, the prejudices, which divide. Despite the tendency to feel my race superior, my nation the greatest nation, my faith the true faith, I must beat down the boundaries of my exclusiveness until my sense of separateness is completely enveloped in a sense of fellowship. I will light the candle of fellowship this Christmas, a candle that must burn all the year long." - The Mood of Christmas & Other Celebrations by Howard Thurman

The Miracle Tree


Christobel Mattingley - 1985
    Separated by the explosion of the atomic bomb, a husband, wife, and mother carry on with their lives in the ruins of Nagasaki and are eventually reunited one Christmas by a very special tree.

The Nativity play


Nick Butterworth - 1985
    Sam and his sister join their classmates in putting on a school nativity play, appearing as shepherds, animals, and Wise Men to tell the story of the birth of Christ.

Little Luv Angel/a Christmas Story


Toby Bluth - 1985
    Follows the adventures of three angels, Faith, Hope, and Luv, as they play and sing all over Heaven until Faith and Hope are sent to earth to be born and Luv leaves Heaven to search for them.

A Christmas Celebration: A Scratch and Sniff Book


Joan Walsh Anglund - 1985
    This book include scratch and sniff pages and holiday recipes.

Christmas Fun Mad Libs


Roger Price - 1985
    That's why this is a Mad Lib®. From "Christmas Vacation" to "A Visit to Santa at the North Pole," Christmas Fun Mad Libs® can add laughs to your holiday. Make traditional songs and stories wacky by adding parts of speech. Just read the simple directions and play Mad Libs® with friends or by yourself. It's the world's greatest word game.

Lynn Hollyn's Christmas Toyland


Lynn Hollyn - 1985
    After the children fall asleep on Christmas Eve, their toys travel to the land of Christmas Wood where they have a wonderful feast with the fairies.

The Word made flesh: the meaning of the Christmas season


Pope John Paul II - 1985
    These homilies, delivered while he was still a cardinal, affirm moral and social responsibility by encouraging Christians to infuse the charity of Christmas into everyday life.

The Care Bears' Night Before Christmas


Peggy Kahn - 1985
    An adaptation of "The Night Before Christmas" in which Santa visits the Care Bears, who are nestled on puffy cloud beds.