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  • Home For Christmas

    Home For Christmas

    Home For Christmas (1937) by Lloyd C. Douglas ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My copy has a name written on the flyleaf, Pearl E. Wist. It was published by Grossett & Dunlap. At 118 pages, this delightful book is a story of a group of adult siblings who gather in their childhood home for Christmas festivities. Things are to…

  • The Cookie-Lady

    The Cookie-Lady

    Here we have a “sweet” poem, again by Edgar A. Guest. It’s from Rhymes Of Childhood (1924). The Cookie-LadyEdgar A. Guest She is gentle, kind and fair,And there’s silver in her hair;She has known the touch of sorrow,But the smile of her is sweet;And sometimes it seems to meThat her mission is to beThe gracious…

  • Gillian’s Christmas – Tree

    Here is a story from Chatterbox, 1912. I really, really loved this story! GILLIAN’S CHRISTMAS – TREE. ‘Mother, can’t we have a Christmas-tree?’ asked Gillian Derwent, one December day, standing by the table, where her widowed mother sat painting Christmas cards, in a shabby sitting-room at Seacombe, a small South-coast watering-place, where they were spending…