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Thomas’s audio recording of A Child’s Christmas in Wales is perhaps better known than the book version, yet its lines, such as “All the Christmases roll down towards the two-tongued sea ...

A library in Leeds, England, has set up a Christmas display with an assortment of holiday classics, but the star of the ...

As the snow falls and the holiday season wraps us in its magic, there’s no better time to grab a warm blanket, a steaming cup ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books.

Over the years, it slowly changed until it settled into the role of helping with groceries and ensuring children had at least a new book and toy at Christmas. For 40 of those years, Marilee Roloff ...

If you’re a bibliophile, we know exactly what you’d love this Christmas — some new books, right? My Kolkata has two brilliant suggestions for you to pick up — whether you’re treating yourself or ...

But we also had a Christmas gift tradition that was less traditional (in fact, maybe we are the only family that did it?): the book couch. Santa would put the presents (the ones that fit ...

when the Book Review editors wrote about it in a short note to readers: “The human heart beats in it, the true Christmas spirit pervades it, and it will be dear to the heart of childhood as long ...