Kringle
Kringle

Author: Tony Abbott

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780439749428

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This coming-of-age story is a tale of fantasy and mystery, of goblins, elves, and flying reindeer, and of how a boy from the humblest beginnings fulfills his destiny.

Christine Kringle
Christine Kringle

Author: Lynn Brittney

Publisher: Christine Kringle

Published: 2007-10-03

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1419675540

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A fun Christmas fantasy book about the Christmas Gift Bringers of the World.

The Battle for Christmas
The Battle for Christmas

Author: Stephen Nissenbaum

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0307760227

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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children. Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. In this intriguing and innovative work of social history, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovers Christmas's carnival origins and shows how it was transformed, during the nineteenth century, into a festival of domesticity and consumerism. Bursting with detail, filled with subversive readings of such seasonal classics as "A Visit from St. Nicholas” and A Christmas Carol, The Battle for Christmas captures the glorious strangeness of the past even as it helps us better understand our present.

Santa Claus, Last of the Wild Men
Santa Claus, Last of the Wild Men

Author: Phyllis Siefker

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780786402465

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Much of the modern-day vision of Santa Claus is owed to the Clement Moore poem The Night Before Christmas. His description of Saint Nicholas personified the jolly old elf known to millions of children throughout the world. However, far from being the offshoot of Saint Nicholas of Turkey, Santa Claus is the last of a long line of what scholars call Wild Men who were worshipped in ancient European fertility rites and came to America through Pennsylvania's Germans. This pagan creature is described from prehistoric times through his various forms--Robin Hood, The Fool, Harlequin, Satan and Robin Goodfellow--into today's carnival and Christmas scenes. In this thoroughly researched work, the origins of Santa Claus are found to stretch back over 50,000 years, jolting the foundation of Christian myths about the jolly old elf.

Christmas in Pennsylvania
Christmas in Pennsylvania

Author: Alfred Lewis Shoemaker

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780811703284

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Originally published in 1959 and written by a pioneer in American folk-life studies, this classic work examines the folk origins of Christmas in Pennsylvania. Composed of interviews and newspaper reports, it records holiday traditions from the eighteenth century through to the early twentieth century. In this edition, Don Yoder has contributed a new foreword, providing insight into Alfred L. Shoemaker's influential career and the significance of this still vital work, and an afterword, offering a look at recent research on Christmas customs.

The Delineator
The Delineator

Author: R. S. O'Loughlin

Publisher:

Published: 1906

Total Pages: 1194

ISBN-13:

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Issue for Oct. 1894 has features articles on Mount Holyoke College and Millinery as an employment for women.