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Holidays Genre
Books in the Holidays genre:
On the Cards: Routledge’s Christmas Annual (1867)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Et al
Old Christmas: Selections from the Sketch Book (1875)
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Quiver of Love (1876)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Kate Greenaway
Kate Greenaway’s Birthday Book for Children (1880)
Author(s):
Lucy Sale-Barker
Illustrator(s):
Kate Greenaway
A Winter Nosegay (1881)
Three stories. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Walter Crane
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Legends for Lionel (1887)
A Christmas fantasy. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Walter Crane
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
A Book of Christmas Verse (1895)
An anthology that begins with St. Ambrose. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Henry Charles Beeching
Various
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Dream Days (1902)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)
A fictionalized account of the origin of Santa Claus. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Mary Cowles Clark
A Night of Wonders (1906)
A Christmas adventure.
Author(s):
F. D. Bedford
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Santa Claus and All About Him (1908)
Everything you wanted to know about the jolly old elf.
Author(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Thin Santa Claus: The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking (1909)
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
May Wilson Preston
Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse (1912)
A collection of stories and poems by the Chicago poet of childhood. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Eugene Field
Illustrator(s):
Florence Edith Storer
Twas the Night Before Christmas (1912)
Author(s):
Clement C. Moore
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round" (1913)
Twenty stories from periodicals. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Edward Dalziel
Et al
A Wonderful Night (1919)
A retelling and meditation on the Nativity. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Henry Snowden
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Five Little Friends (1922)
Five school friends and their adventures in school and out. Read online at gutenberg.org.
Author(s):
Sherred Willcox Adams
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
In the Endless Sands: a Christmas Book for Boys and Girls (1925)
A boy is lost in the North African desert, and taken in by the Arabs.
Author(s):
Cyril Kay-Scott
Evelyn Scott
Illustrator(s):
Owen Merton
The Holly Tree and Other Christmas Stories (1926)
Four short tales by Dickens including The Holly-tree, The Seven Poor Travellers, The Poor Relation’s Story, and The Haunted House.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Kris and Kristina (1927)
A Christmas story starring Kris Kringle and Kristina.
Author(s):
Marie Bruce
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty