“Santa Claus stuffs the stockings.” Illustration by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Published in Twas the Night Before Christmas, Clement Moore (1912), Houghton Mifflin Company.

Christmas Tree (Pohutukawa)

Isabel M. Peacocke
New Zealand

Long ago the Pic

A Child's Christmas in Wales

by

Dylan Thomas

One Christmas was so much like the other, in those years around the sea-town corner now, out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can n