Dec 14, 2024
First Day of CraftLit (2024)
Get ready for the best time of the year! Join us for 12 days of holiday fun, heartwarming stories, and a little festive magic!
Today, we kick off Day 1 and we’ve compiled our Christmas tales from our 2016, 2017, and 2023 series just for you!
So, grab your favorite holiday treat, settle in, and let the first set of stories transport you to a world of wonder.
DAY ONE
The Mouse and the Christmas Cake by Anonymous
The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Anderson
Hoodoo McFiggins’ Christmas - from Literary Lapses, by Stephen Leacock
John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. Columbia university, Harper’s magazineS (he worked on or for many), New Metropolitan magazine, and Puck—this guy got around.
The Child Who Had Everything But --
—Hobble skirt
—Finger curls
—"psyche knot"
—slumming
parties and a NYTimes article you can get if you have a
subscription: Slumming
In This Town. A Fashionable London Mania Reaches New-York. Slumming
Parties To Be The Rage This Winter. Good Districts To Visit. Mrs.
Langtry As A Slummer New York Times.
September 14, 1884
—Playing
marbles: aggies, alleys, and mibs
Santa Claus And Little Billee
Sandwich boards
Telephone “Station”
Told After Supper (1891)
By: Jerome K. Jerome - https://librivox.org/author/529
From: https://librivox.org/told-after-supper-by-jerome-k-jerome/
eText: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1993/pg1993-images.html
Read by: Ruth Golding - https://librivox.org/reader/2607
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