Coats on the Bed on Christmas Eve
A crowded house, a bed piled high with coats, and Grandma's quiet word about Bethlehem. A warm, rhyming Christmas poem made for reading aloud with family.
68 stories
Holidays
Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and the days we gather together.
The Photographs That Came Home for Thanksgiving
After a spring fire took 46 years of family photo albums, Marlene dreads Thanksgiving in a rented duplex. Then her family arrives carrying envelopes.
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About our holidays stories
Holiday stories for the days we gather together: Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and New Year’s.
At Easter, readers return to The Empty Egg, about a boy named Jeremy who teaches his class the meaning of the empty tomb, and to Pine Tree Crosses. At Christmas, A Christmas Story, Being Rich and Angel on the Highway are shared around the tree year after year.
These short holiday stories are good for reading aloud at the dinner table, in a Christmas or Easter program, or in a card to someone far away. We add new seasonal stories a few weeks before each holiday, so there’s always something fresh to share when the day arrives. For more, see our Christmas stories and Easter stories collections.