Christmas by the Book: Literature to Make Your Heart Grow Three Sizes

By Amanda Festa
Some of my favorite memories of childhood are of the holiday season.  Sparkling twinkle lights decorating houses, turning their ordinary facades into magical winter scenes, evergreen trees decked out with delicate ornaments, and sipping hot chocolate by fireplaces.  These have become stock images for a reason, and each individual memory only adds to the power of the season.
Yet countless of these ‘memories’ are so strongly tied to literature that many of our own recollections of the season are inextricable from the books we read as children. The anticipation of Christmas Eve ev...

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