025 Christmas Stories with Nancy Kelly

Our Guest: Nancy Kelly of Sage Parnassus- we are so grateful that she was able to have the energy to visit with us while she recovered from a round of the Rona!

Nancy has so generously compiled a list of her family’s favorite Christmas books- over 150 titles, in a free pdf that can be found here: Kelly Family Christmas Book List.

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Featured books in this episode:

• The Gospel of John read alongside the Scale How Meditations by Charlotte Mason

• Charlotte Mason Home Education Series (Nancy’s favorite volume is no. 4 Ourselves)

• Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

• The George MacDonald Christmas Collection selected by David Jack

• Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

• Zao’s Tales by J. A. Sommer

• The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

• The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann

• The Story of Us by Mitali Perkins

• Mousekins's Christmas Eve by Edna Miller

• Forever Christmas by Harry Davis

• The Tall Book of Christmas by Dorothy Hall Smith

• A Certain Small Shepherd by Rebecca Caudill

• Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert Barry

• The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston

• The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter

• Take Joy! The Tasha Tudor Christmas Book by Tasha Tudor

• On That Night by Elizabeth Yates

• A Grandma for Christmas by Alta Halverson Seymour

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

• Papa Panov's Special Christmas translated into English by Leo Tolstoy

• The Other Wise Man by Henry van Dyke

• The Chimes by Charles Dickens

• The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens

• The Art of Advent: A Painting a Day from Advent to Epiphany by Jane Williams

• The Glorious Impossible by Madeleine L'Engle

• Wounded in Spirit: Advent Art and Meditations by David Bannon

• The Christmas Story from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Christmas Is Coming!: Celebrate the Holiday with Art, Stories, Poems, Songs, and Recipes by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits by Les Standiford

• The Dean’s Watch by Elizabeth Goudge

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

• Corrie’s Christmas Memories by Corrie ten Boom

• A Christmas Book by Elizabeth Goudge

• Maple and Willow’s Christmas Tree by Lori Nichols

• Maple and Willow Apart by Lori Nichols

• Good King Wenceslas

• Christmas Around the World series by Alta Halverson Seymour

• Turkey for Christmas by Marguerite de Angeli

• The Lion in the Box by Marguerite de Angeli

• The Box of Delights by John Masefield

Christmas audio programs:

• Three Wise Men and a Baby by Jungle Jam and Friends the Radio Show

• The King Has Arrived by Michael J. Tinker

  

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Belvedere Mansion and Gardens in Galena, Illinois. Houses a beautiful collection of Christian art.

Kelly Family Christmas Book List- free pdf of over 150 Christmas titles

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