For six people-a little girl, a thief, a harried woman, a jobless young man, a bride now a widow, and a blind man- it is a night that brings to pass one of the legends of Christmas Eve: that "on that night lost things are found again".

    Andrew's Day) to January 5 (Twelfth Night).Natalia Belting's highly individual blank-verse style is complemented by Barbara Cooney's accurate, detailed Elizabethan illustrations to make Christmas Folk as high-spirited as the lively mummers of old.