In the week when Christmas comes / Eleanor Farjeon Christmas is coming / English rhyme Day before Christmas / Marchette Chute December / John Updike Dimmest and brightest month am I / Christina Rossetti Ramona and the three wise persons / Beverly Cleary Trouble with pies / David McCord The Christmas pudding / Traditional Duckle, duckle, daisy / Leroy F. Jackson The elves and the shoemaker / The Brothers Grimm The puppy who wanted a boy / Jane Thayer Little tree / E.E. Cummings The birth of Jesus / Luke 2:1-20 Away in a manger / attributed to Martin Luther What you gonna name that pretty little baby? / Spiritual Baboushka / Russian folk tale Jingle bells / James Pierpont A present for Santa Claus / Carolyn Haywood The more it snows / A.A. Milne Snowflakes / Marchette Chute Merry Christmas / Aileen Fisher The Christmas thief / Jay Williams Once there was a snowman / Anonymous A sled for Christmas / Jack Prelutsky The little blue dishes / Anonymous Long, long ago / Anonymous What can I give Him? / Christina Rossetti How far is it to Bethlehem? / Francis A. Chesterton The friendly beasts / English carol Jesus Ahatonhia (Jesus is born) / Father Jean de Bréfeuf Uncle Wiggly's Christmas / Howard R. Garis A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore Carol of the Russian children / Anonymous The bells / Edgar Allan Poe We wish you a merry Christmas / English carol Wassail song / English carol The Christmas whale / Roger Duvoisin Thank-you note / Judith Viorst The tardy Santa Claus / Kate D. Wiggin A woman named Mrs. S. Claus / J. Patrick Lewis The three Magi / Pura Belpré There was a ship a-sailing / English song Emmet Otter's jug-band Christmas / Russell Hoban Christmas carol / Sara Teasdale Shepherd's song at Christmas / Langston Hughes How we made Christmas / Grey Owl The twelve days of Christmas / Traditional A merry literary Christmas / Alice Low Christmas every day / William Dean Howells An old Christmas greeting / Anonymous Merry Christmas / from St. Nicholas magazine Christmas eve / David McCord Cobweb Christmas / Shirley Climo The joy of giving / John Greenleaf Whittier
