The Night They Wait For

Eight Christmas stories for children, from Louisa May Alcott, L. M. Montgomery, Beatrix Potter, Margaret Sidney, Kate Douglas Wiggin and Israel Zangwill. A spoiled girl dreams her way into giving a party for orphans; a prairie girl sells her locket to fill her cousins' stockings; a poor family of Peppers builds a secret tree; mice finish a tailor's coat on Christmas Eve; a boy with no stockings goes looking for Santa Claus. Includes an introduction and notes on the texts. A gift edition, illustrated throughout with original paintings made for this edition and set with ornamental chapter openings.