66 stories

Holidays

Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and the days we gather together.

A Table Grace for the Day We Put the Leaf In

A rhyming Thanksgiving grace to read aloud before the turkey is carved, giving thanks for the cooks, the travelers, the kids' table and the loved ones gone ahead.

PoemJune Ashby2 min

Easter

From the archiveInspire21 archive7 min

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.