Here is a list of my favorite Christmas classics that never fail to get me in the holiday spirit. As Christmas inches closer, I wrap myself in my favorite cuddly blanket, pour some hot cocoa (the frothy kind, made with real milk, and bobbing marshmallows), and go back to a time when I, too believed in a jolly man in red...
1) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
2) The Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg
3) How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Seuss
4) "The Gift of the Magi" - O. Henry
5) The Nutcracker - E.T.A. Hoffman, illustrations by Maurice Sendak
6) The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson
7) The Christmas Box - Richard Paul Evans
8) The Night Before Christmas - Jan Brett
9) The Tailor of Gloucester - Beatrix Potter
10) The Father Christmas Letters - J.R.R. Tolkien
