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Home for Christmas

By: Miriam LeBlanc, Henry Van Dyke, Pearl S. Buck, Beatrice Joy Chute, Ruth Sawyer, Elizabeth Goudge, Selma Lagerlöf, Rebecca Caudill, Madeleine L'Engle
Narrated by: Heather Corrigan, Boyd Gaines, Mara DeMay, Leer Leary, Kathleen McNenny, Adam Verner
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Publisher's summary

Twenty tales for the holiday season selected for their spiritual value and literary quality.

For listeners who are tired of Christmas commercialism, or who feel that Santa Claus and reindeer don’t tell the whole story, these classic gems provide a winning alternative. Selected for their insightfulness, spiritual value, and literary quality (nothing moralistic here) they project the spirit of the season in a fresh, compelling manner that will resonate with listeners of all ages - from children too young to read to themselves, to parents and grandparents who enjoy listening to stories, as well.

Home for Christmas includes time-tested favorites by some of the world’s most beloved children’s authors - Pearl Buck, Selma Lagerlöf, Henry van Dyke, Madeleine L’Engle, Elizabeth Goudge, Rebecca Caudill, and Ruth Sawyer - as well as little-known European stories appearing in English for the first time.

©2021 Miriam LeBlanc, Henry Van Dyke, Pearl S. Buck, Beatrice Joy Chute, Ruth Sawyer, Elizabeth Goudge, Selma Lagerlöf, Rebecca Caudill, Madeleine L'Engle (P)2021 Plough Publishing House
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If you’re giving one book for Christmas, make it this one. (Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud Handbook)

This is undoubtedly the most literary collection of Christmas stories to be published this season. The editors at Plough have taken a conservative approach, eschewing sentimental claptrap in favor of classic, elegant writing. There are some standard-bearers here, including Henry van Dyke's enduring yarn The Other Wise Man and Pearl S. Buck's gentle and touching story Christmas Day in the Morning. Some contributions are deeply theological (Madeleine L'Engle's Transfiguration) while others offer the dark, discerning cadences of a timeless fable (Selma Lagerlof's The Christmas Rose). The collection has an international flavor, with stories set in Cuba, Germany, Siberia, Palestine, Denmark and Spain, as well as in Vermont and New York City. Readers who crave literary excellence as well as a heartwarming Christmas message will relish this carefully selected and intelligent anthology. (Publishers Weekly)

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A few good tales.

I liked the international flavor of this short story collection about the true meaning of Christmas, however, only a handful of the lot resonated with me. Still this was a good sale purchase to enjoy during the Advent season and perhaps revisit someday. It may be that this is a better collection to read than listen to as the narrators where good, but not great.

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