Pearl Story Book: Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas, and New Year's Day

by Ada M. Skinner, Eleanor L. Skinner

70 chapters7h 38mEnglish1910

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A collection of Christmas, Winter, and New Year tales and poems compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner (Summary by RomaSingh)

Chapters (69)

1Winter (selection)

118

2The Ice King (Indian legend)

504

3A Song of the Snow (poem)

159

4King Frost and King Winter (adapted)

691

5The Snowstorm (poem)

152

6The First Winter (Iroquois legend)

322

7Snow Song (poem)

103

8The Snow Maiden (Russian legend. Translated from the French)

382

9The Frost King (poem)

144

10King Winter’s Harvest

222

11Old King Winter (poem)

12Sheltering Wings

333

13Snowflakes (selection)

14The Snow-Image

1575

15The First Snow-Fall

16The Voice of the Pine Trees (Japanese legend)

272

17The Pine Tree Maiden (Indian legend)

427

18The Holly

435

19The Fable of the Three Elms (poem)

182

20The Pine and the Willow

262

21Why the Wild Rabbits Are White in Winter (Algonquin legend retold)

537

22The Yew

151

23How the Pine Tree Did Some Good

810

24A Wonderful Weaver (poem)

25The Pine and the Flax

239

26The Fir Tree (poem)

27Why Bruin Has a Stumpy Tail (Norwegian legend)

377

28Pines and Firs

918

29Who Loves the Trees Best? (poem)

30A Christmas Song

31The Shepherd Maiden’s Gift (Eastern legend)

588

32Christmas Gifts

296

33Silver Bells (poem)

34The Animals’ Christmas Tree

1097

35A Christmas Carol

127

36Holly

784

37The Willow Man (poem)

205

38The Ivy Green (selection)

39Legend of St. Nicholas

1214

40Christmas Bells (selection)

41A Night With Santa Claus

775

42A Child’s Thought About Santa Claus (poem)

192

43Charity in a Cottage

867

44The Waits (poem)

119

45Where Love Is There God Is Also (adapted)

622

46God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen

47The Glad New Year (poem)

48The Bad Little Goblin’s New Year

818

49Selection

50The Queen of the Year (poem)

51The New Year’s Bell

460

52The New Year

53The Child and the Year (poem)

54A Masque of the Days

312

55Ring Out, Wild Bells (poem)

56The Bells (selection)

101

57A January Thaw

835

58The Snow Man

656

59The Happy Prince

1475

60The Legend of King Wenceslaus (adapted)

474

61Midwinter (poem)

198

62Old Winter (poem)

114

63The Snowball That Didn’t Melt

1024

64Gau-wi-di-ne and Go-hay (Iroquois legend retold)

751

65Naming the Winds (Indian legend retold)

320

66North Wind’s Frolic (translated)

228

67The Months: A Pageant (adapted)

1163

68Prince Winter

683

69How Spring and Winter Met (poem)

140

Pearl Story Book: Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas, and New Year's Day

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