Ruth Sawyer

Ruth Sawyer's This Way To Christmas tells the story of David, who is sent away from his family because of the first world war. Irish Johanna, David's old nurse, regards the other people on their isolated mountain as heathen. David finds companionship by visiting them, hearing their stories of Christmas, and retelling their stories to his hosts. David, who is younger and less prejudiced, communicates a vision of their shared humanity to his elders.

A poor cobbler and his three sons worry about having food for their Christmas feast, until a playful goblin king pays them a visit.

Liberated for a year from her parents' restrictions, ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom in the care of her temporary guardians as she roller skates around the streets of turn-of-the-century New York.

Right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot. He was halfway down and more when the straps on his sacking bag broke loose. Out bounced the journey cake. It bumped and it bumped; it rolled over and over. Down the road it went, and how it hollered! "Journey cake, ho! Journey cake, hi! Catch me and eat me as I roll by!" Away and away rolled the journey cake. Away and away ran Johnny.

Daddles, a joyful hunting dog, is the seasonal pet of a brother and sister who spend their summers in Maine.

The adventures of Dietrich of Berne whose daring and courage won him many battles and friendships but never the thing he desired most--the hand of the Snow Queen.

A Mexican lad finds a Chinese dragon on the hillside and, in return for feeding the dragon and telling him old tales, the dragon helps the boy's village celebrate the Christmas fiesta.

An Irish lad catches a leprechaun to take with him on a trip to America, where he impresses his new friends with the splendors of his homeland and helps bring a new schoolhouse to the town.

An eight-year-old Maine girl determines in June to sell enough berries that summer so that she and her shiftless family can give a proper celebration for her birthday Christmas.

Just going on memory - but, this Christmas story is set in Hungary. Remember the snow illustrations with bright colors and the horse drawn sleigh. This story is based on my Grandmother and GreatAunt. Wish I had more inform Do remember Ruth Sawyer wrote the book. Illustrated by Kate Seredy (Caldecott Honor book)

The story of a country doctor and the people of a small Irish village, quite ignored by the railway guides and unknown to travelers.

A collection of children's folk and fairy tales, including fables of Aesop.

The Least One portrays a white sharecropping family during the Great Depression and is based on Borden Deal’s experiences growing up on a small farm in northeastern Mississippi. Deal portrays the realities of cotton-field work: planting, chopping, the laying-by time, and harvesting. He succeeds in evoking not only the crushing economic circumstances of poor Southern whites in that period but also their fierce sense of independence and self-sufficiency.

Five brothers and sisters return to the old homestead to celebrate Christmas.

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