Journey into Christmas and Other Stories (Bison Book S)

Some of the stories got repetitive (you could tell where her mind was when she wrote them), but she still had the deft prose that I feel in love with when I read Song Of Years. Well worth revisiting her--it brought back lovely memories.

"(1949) The true meaning of Christmas emerges in these stories about reunited families, good fellowship, and restored faith. This is not to say that all is sugar candy. The mother in the title story faces a lonely Christmas in an empty house; but then something quite ordinary but miraculous happens. In "The Drum Goes Dead," a small-town bank cashier, a solid citizen and sterling friend, is dispirited by hard times until he discovers that it is indeed a wonderful life. In the closing piece, "I Remember," the author recalls her own childhood in Iowa."
-Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation

Some very humorous, touching Christmas stories from the prairie from the late 1800's to the 1940's.

Holiday stories that are dramatic, humorous, and inspirational by an author from Iowa.

Warm, nostalgic, sentimental holiday stories from the 1940's.