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They are some of the warmest childhood memories, those unhurried evenings around the fireplace, Christmas tree, or dinner table, when there was time for a Christmas story...we hope with these tales you can keep the story-telling tradition alive in your family, and pass it on to your children or grandchildren.
Short Christmas Stories for Children
Three Young Kings
17 page Christmas short story set in Cuba. Three boys play the Three Kings who deliver gifts on the eve of Epiphany. But what will they give the poor children they pass on the street? A delightful story of strong tradition broken by the power of love. In English and Spanish.
The Innkeeper's Son
12 page Christmas story for children: The blind son of a cruel innkeeper takes in a stranger on Christmas Eve. Who is he and where is he going?
The Manger Mouse
4 page Christmas story for children: A cat and a mouse meet at the manger on Christmas Eve. Suitable for family reading with younger children, who will enjoy the lovely descriptions of that starry night.
Razor-Wire Christmas
18 page Christmas short story for teens and others: Stuck behind bars this Christmas, Julio worries about his wife, who is about to have their first child. Escape is impossible, or is it?
Grandfather's Stories
11 page Christmas short story for older children: It is Christmas Eve on a large Prussian estate shortly after the great upheaval now known as World War II, and several tenants have gathered with their masters for the evening. Christoph, their elderly coachman, has been coaxed into telling a story for old times’ sake.
The Carpenter's Christmas: a Christmas Short Story
A 10 page story for Christmas set as a European folk tale. A nagging wife is horrified when her carpenter husband fixes a neighbor's roof instead of going to church on Christmas Eve. Who is right?
Brother Robber: a Story for Christmas
A 9 page story of St. Francis for family reading at Christmas - when Brother Angelo turns away the hungry robbers, what will St. Francis say?
The Chess Player: a Christmas Short Story beloved by children
13 pages: Crusty old farmer Dyhema wants to play chess on Christmas Eve, but the parson can't get there through the snow storm. Instead, someone arrives to play a game that is life-changing...but who will win?
The Guest: a Story for Christmas
11 page short story: Many years ago, in Czarist Russia, a man was traveling through Siberia. While he was staying with a family in a remote village, his host told him this story...
Willibald's Trip to Heaven: a Christmas Short Story
11 page Christmas short story: Willibald Krautmann and Christmas—these two things belonged together like a door and its hinges, like a clock and its face, like a bell and its tower. The whole year round he dreamed of and prepared for Christmas. In his lifetime he had carved more than a thousand figurines; he had built sixty manger scenes, and never once had he missed the annual crèche-makers’ conference in Innsbruck....