The Fir-Tree is a short Christmas story by Hans Christian Andersen. It is reprinted here with permission of the Houghton-Mifflin Company. The Fir-Tree Out in the woods stood a nice little Fir-tree. The place he had was a very good one; the sun shone on him; as to fresh air, there was enough of...
In 1897, a young girl named Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to “The New York Sun” questioning whether Santa was real. Journalist Francis Church wrote the response, and his work quickly became one of the most famous editorials ever written. His words were reprinted in the Sun every Christmas until 1949 when the paper...
By Mrs. M.A.L. Lane *This story was first published in the Youth’s Companion, vol. 74. It was the day before Christmas in the year 189-. Snow was falling heavily in the streets of Boston, but the crowd of shoppers seemed undiminished. As the storm increased, groups gathered at the corners and in sheltering doorways...
A short story by Winnifred E. Lincoln It was Christmas Eve, and Little Girl had just hung up her stocking by the fireplace–right where it would be all ready for Santa when he slipped down the chimney. She knew he was coming, because–well, because it was Christmas Eve, and because he always had come...
