Christmas Literature
The Nutcracker Suite
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/music1/nutcracker.html
http://www.bethanyroberts.com/NutcrackerStory.htm
http://www.thevirtualvine.com/thenutcracker.html
http://www.allthingschristmas.com/northpole/color/colorpages/nutcracker01.html
http://ww.12days.com/playground/nutcracker/default.asp
http://www.quia.com/mc/214777.html
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/mnutcracker.html
The Night Before Christmas
http://north.pole.org/twas_frame.html
Christmas Carol
http://www.silverlake.mec.edu/jhlib/dickenspage.htm
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DicChri.html
About the Author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol
Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2221/kararudolph.html
About the Author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer
Gift of the Magi 
http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi
The Gift of the Magi" is an O. Henry
short
story
in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can
barely afford their one-room apartment opposite the elevated train. For
Christmas,
she decides to buy him a platinum chain for his prized pocket watch. To
raise the funds, she has her hair cut off and sold to make a wig.
Meanwhile, he decides to sell his watch to buy her a beautiful set of
combs for her lovely, knee-length hair.
The moral of the story is that physical possessions, however valuable they may be, are of little value in the grand scheme of things. The true unseflish love that the characters, Jim and Della, share is greater than their possessions.
O. Henry ends the story by clarifying the metaphor between the characters in the story, Della and James (or Jim), and the Biblical Magi.
"The Gift of the Magi" features O. Henry's characteristic twist ending and use of flowery diction.
About the Author
http://ellerbruch.nmu.edu/classes/cs255f01/cs255students/bmaki/P11/projecteleven.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi
The Polar Express
About the Author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Polar_Express
