Ruth Sawyer

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

Because of the war, Anna was told there would be no Christmas cakes, but she believed that Christmas Angel would make them possible.

Eight-going-on-nine-year-old Maggie Rose, who was born on the night before Christmas and named after a real live princess, is one of "those Bunkers," a lazy and shiftless family who live in a dilapidated shack on the wrong side of the Point, a resort spot near Bangor, Maine, and are known to one and all as the laziest, laughingest, singingest family for miles around. Tim and Liz bunker and their brood of seven children are without an ambition in the...