"It's Christmas time in Calabria and with Strega Nona's annual feast around the corner, she has no time for her usual magical tasks. Christmas has a magic of its own, and no one knows magic like Strega Nona does, especially Big Anthony. But with the clock ticking on her preparations, will Big Anthony finally be able to prove that he can be counted on with some magic of his own?"--

Excluded from helping to prepare the Christmas celebration in Heaven, three small angels find a way to light up the night sky on Christmas Eve.

The inhabitants of a New England village never make much fuss about Christmas until a new family moves in and celebrates the holiday in a special way.

Mister Frog is usually asleep at Christmas time, but this year his good friends make sure that he has a wonderful holiday.

Because Befana's household chores kept her from finding the Baby King, she searches to this day, leaving gifts for children on the Feast of the Three Kings.

"Like a flame of fire, that star pointed out God, the King of Kings.  Tomie dePaola retells the story of the three wise men with reverence and wonder in this restored edition of his beautiful 1983 picture book" --

Children's author and illustrator Tomie dePaola shares special memories of fifteen Christmases he has celebrated over the course of his life, beginning in the 1930s when he was three years old.

Prepared to take off in his jam-packed sleigh on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus realizes that he has something else to do first, and hurriedly sheds his layers of red velvet.

Prepared to take off in his jam-packed sleigh on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus realizes that he has something else to do first, and hurriedly sheds his layers of red velvet. On board pages.

Traditional Christmas carols by various persons plus fiction and folklore about Christmas by Tomie de Paola.