Presents the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor. On board pages. Presents the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.

Nicholas and his grandfather put aside their plans of decorating the Christmas tree to care for a cardinal trapped in a blizzard on Christmas Eve. Includes information on cardinals and instructions for making a bird feeder and bird habitat.

Bear's friends awaken him the day before Christmas and help him to stay awake as they bake fruitcakes, fill stockings, and sing carols; then, while they sleep, he prepares his own surprise.

The widow McDowell and her seven-year-old son Thomas ask the gruff Jonathan Toomey, the best wood-carver in the valley, to carve the figures for a Christmas creche.

Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens -- DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a night when all things can come to life ... even toys. And Jack's newest toy -- the Christmas Pig (DP's replacement) -- has a daring plan: Together they'll embark on a magical journey to seek something lost, and to save the best friend...

"In the Cornish coastal village of Mount Polbearne, the Christmas season has arrived. It's a joyous time for family, friends, and feasting, as decorations sparkle along the town's winding streets and shop windows glow with festive displays. And in Polly's Little Beach Street Bakery, the aroma of gingerbread cookies and other treats tempts people in from the cold. Though Polly is busy keeping up with the demands of the season, she still makes time...

Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. The prospect of spending Christmas with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia’s perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered yuppie life does not appeal. Frankly, Sofia doesn’t exactly want her prickly sister Carmen there either. But Sofia has yet another baby on the way, a mother desperate to see her daughters get along, and a client...

A walking, talking Lump of coal that aspires to be an artist, experiences its own holiday miracle after offering its services to a drugstore Santa and being placed in the stocking of Jasper, a young malcontent who shares the Lump's artistic vision.

A wealthy and depressed man on his way to Hawaii for the holidays winds up stranded by a blizzard in his hometown in North Dakota after stopping to visit his ailing uncle, and as he bides his time in the darkened silence after a power outage, he realizes happiness may hinge on a simpler life.

Nathan Hurst hates the Christmas season and all its trappings, which only remind him of the event that destroyedhis childhood, but, when a snowstorm strands him with a young mother and her special son, he witnesses the true miracles that occur during the holidays.