The Climbing Angel Christmas Treasury

Product Description

The Climbing Angel Christmas Treasury is a coffee table Christmas collection of wonderful holiday stories, appropriate to the times yet filled with “old-fashioned” values. Written by American authors, old and new, illustrated by a gifted Texas artist, and printed in Tennessee. When you purchase this book, you support innovative writers, working hard to produce inspirational stories for you and your family. This is a family-friendly collection of short stories and poems for the entire family, all Christmas-themed. Readers of all ages can enjoy reading one heart-warming story after another, leading right up to Christmas, preparing you for one of our most treasured holiday seasons-the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

Review

The Gift of the Magi:
“One dollar and eighty-seven cents is all the money Della has in the world to buy her beloved a Christmas present. She has nothing to sell except her only treasure–her long, beautiful brown hair. Set in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, this classic piece of American literature tells the story of a young couple and the sacrifices each must make to buy the other a gift. Beautiful, delicate watercolors by award-winning illustrator Lisbeth Zwerger add new poignancy and charm to this simple tale about the rewards of unselfish love.” (Goodreads)

The Gift of the Magi:
“O. Henry’s ‘The Gift of the Magi’ is one of the two best-known secular Christmas stories-the other is, of course, Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol.’ It is also much harder to translate to a screen feature, since O. Henry specialized in short stories with ‘snapper’ endings-usually sardonic jokes on their protagonists.” (IMDb)

The Little Match Girl:
“Andersen’s tale about a little girl who’s afraid to go home because she hasn’t sold enough matches is a classic. The little girl, bareheaded and barefoot, curls up in a corner, lighting match after match to warm herself. In the flames she sees visions; in the final one, her grandmother appears and lifts the little girl into heaven.” (Publisher’s Weekly)

What Christmas Is As We Grow Older:
“Charles Dickens is just great, this is just a short little note about how we change as we get older and how Christmas becomes more for others and less about ourselves as we get older.” (Goodreads)

A Kidnapped Santa Claus:
“After failing to tempt him to their own vices, Santa is kidnapped from the Laughing Valley by the five Daemons of the Caves (Daemons of Selfishness, Envy, Hatred, Malice, and Repentance) on Christmas Eve. Can Christmas be saved?” (Goodreads)

‘Twas The Night Before Christmas:
“This poem first appeared in a newspaper in Troy, New York, USA, on December 23, 1823, as “A Visit From St. Nicholas”. No one claimed authorship until 13 years later. Clement Clarke Moore, a professor and poet, said that he wrote the piece for his children. Unbeknownst to him, his housekeeper had sent it to the newspaper to be published. However, the family of Henry Livingston Jr. contended that their father had been reciting “A Visit from St. Nicholas” for 15 years prior to publication. Regardless of the true author, the poem is now a Christmas classic.” (Goodreads)

About the Author

Darnell Arnoult is the author of the poetry collections Galaxie Wagon and What Travels With Us, and the novel Sufficient Grace. Her shorter works have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies. She has received the Weatherford Award, SIBA Poetry Book of the Year Award, and the Mary Frances Hobson Medal for Arts and Letters. Ms. Arnoult holds an MA from North Carolina State University and an MFA from the University of Memphis. She lives in Mebane, North Carolina. She teaches private workshops and is a regular faculty member of Table Rock Writers Workshop and John C. Campbell Folk School.

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