Christmas Is Coming! Celebrate the Holiday with Art, Stories, Poems, Songs, and Recipes

This nostalgic volume of Christmas stories, poems, carols, recipes, and memorabilia celebrates the holiday’s most deeply held traditions. The text includes classic seasonal standbys alongside holiday-related excerpts from literary works such as Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The selections also broaden to include the unexpected: J. Patrick Lewis’s “On a Day in Gary, Indiana, in the Year of the Moon Walk” is a raw reflection on a memorable childhood gift; accompanying the poem is a work by Austin Augustus Turner, “Twelve Photographs of the Moon.” Additional works of art sampled from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collections vary from devotional art to vintage storybook illustrations, offering reflections both joyous and melancholy. Readers who see Christmas as an assemblage of activities and traditions will value this marvelous treasury. Ages 8–up. (Oct.)