Favorite Christmas Stories

I watch and listen to many, many Christmas stories each year. One of my favorites is Charlie Brown's Christmas. A Christmas Carol is another favorite. I don't watch TV, but many of them are available online now and I read quite a bit. Thanks for mentioning "The Gift of the Magi." I had forgotten about that, but will reread it this evening!

I also love the Gift of the Magi....what an incredible story. I love White Christmas too as it's my favorite Christmas song also.....and I watched Gone with the Wind the night before Thanksgiving.....A wonderful life is also one of my favorites!

The Gift of the Magi made me cry when I first read it as a child.

hi cher oh the C hristmas Carol by Dickens is m,y most favorite then Its a W onderful Life, and c harley Brown C hristmas all really my favorites.theres another one I often watched with a mom who worked in Macy and her little girl who did not believe in Santga Claus and the Real Santa who come to stay in their home and play the Store Santa ,wish I could remember the name of it. lol lol.

I like, It's a wonderful life. I like this movie because it points out how much we each give to other people's lives without even noticing.

My favorites that I've always watched every year since I was a young child are Charlie Brown's Christmas and also Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I can't think of a single year in my life where I haven't seen these two different Christmas specials. Well, the more modern movie that I really like is Home Alone (the original one) and I think that the reason that I like that so much is because of the fact that it is definitely something that will never happen.

When it comes to Christmas stories, I have always loved Charlie Brown's Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Scrooge, Frosty The Snowman and others. I always look forward to watching It's a Wonderful Life for sure, and my favorite saying from that movie will always be "Every Time a Bell Rings, An Angel Gets His Wings."

Oh yes, O Henry... a famous writer who lived in Austin at some time, well, for quite some time actually...

I did all the religious stories for my kids, but me, nor them, ever really got into the TV shows at christmas time. Not sure why...they just never seemed to appeal to us I guess. However...with my two grand daughters....the one that they love love love is called "Tangerine Bear"...where a little bear gets his smile sewn on upside down so that makes him damaged goods and he gets sold to the thrift shop where he makes friends with other toys there...and they are all looking for a home by christmas. It ends, where only one of them gets "bought" and when the shop owner gets an offer on the rest, he turns it down saying they are like family and the toys realize...they have found their homes nad families. THe girls just love it. My recent grand daughter...nearly 2...I got her hooked on it one day she was here and she watched it back to back 4 times! (about an hour long!) Now, she begs for it every time she comes over! It really is a sweet little show. I won't watch it 4 times in a row, but I'll usually sit through the first showing!

Since I was little, A Christmas carol by Charles Dickens has been my favorite by far. Although when I was little I was scared by parts of it, it seemed that that aded up a special meaning to the happy end. I had a book with beautiful pictures and some of them were coloured.

I read the Gift of the Magi to my students each year. I also read the Best Christmas Pageant Ever. I sometimes read the Holiday Concert as well to my students, depending on the amount of time I have available. My daughter and I read Elf on the Shelf together every year(she is only three). We have a whole box of chirstmas books, including one of those that my grandmother got me when I was little with my name in it.