The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe is a charming and heartwarming Christmas tale. It tells the story of a three little children who put together a wonderful surprise for their Granny in order to cheer her up for Christmas and make her feel like a Queen.

Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Children of the Tenements is a collection of stories and tales about orphans and poor children living in the slums of New York City. It provides an interesting insight into city life at the turn of the century and shows how the spirit of Christmas can make an impact even on the most unfortunate ones.

Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Little Women tells the story of four teenaged sisters and their mother, Marmee. The family lives in a new neighborhood in Massachusetts in genteel poverty. Having lost all his money, their father is acting as a pastor, miles from home, involved in the American Civil War. The women face their first Christmas without him. Meg and Jo March, the elder two, have to work in order to support the family: Meg teaches a nearby family of four children; Jo assists her aged great-aunt March, a wealthy widow living in a mansion, Plumfield. Beth, too timid for school, is content to stay at home and help with housework; Amy is still at school. Meg is beautiful and traditional, Jo is a tomboy who writes; Beth is a peacemaker and a pianist; Amy is an artist who longs for elegance and fine society. Jo is impulsive and quick to anger. One of her challenges is trying to control her anger, a challenge that her mother experiences.

A Christmas house-party at a grand old English estate brings together a group of family and friends whose complicated relations are clarified and healed over the course of Christmas holidays. Maurice Treherne is a young man confined to a wheelchair after saving the life of his cousin, Sir Jasper Treherne. Maurice's love is given to his cousin Octavia, although their romance is blocked by Jasper and Octavia's mother who feels that she can't give her daughter to a cripple. Also in the party is Mrs. Snowdon, a beautiful young woman whose affections Jasper and Maurice once competed for, and who seems determined to renew her conquest. What further complicates the situation is a mysterious ghostly appearance in the attic and what hides behind it.

Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Granny's Wonderful Chair is the story of Snowflower. Left to fend for herself by her grandmother, Dame Frostyface, Snowflower turns to the 'wonderful chair' for company. The chair is able to tell stories and to transport Snowflower wherever she wants to go. In the search for her grandmother, Snowflower visits a magical land. Each evening Snowflower is called to the court after their feasting, and she asks her magical chair to tell the company a story. The King Winwealth of magic land rewards Snowflower for each story that is told.

Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. "The Christmas Child" – Miss Priscilla Perry is an old lady who lives on a farm with her servant Nathan and her adopted niece Rhoda, young woman about twenty years old. When Aunt Priscilla's real niece dies she is forced to take in her car a little six-year-old girl name Joan. Rhoda grows fond of Joan and they form a strong bond. At Christmas Rhoda sits Joan and tells her of something she does every year, and that is to go into the barn and see if the Christ Child has come to stay in their manger. But course, that never happens. Until one year… "The Wonderful Life" tells the story of the child's life of Jesus Christ. It is a charming story of the life and death of our Lord.

From the earliest practical containers to the star handbags of today, this book is a comprehensive gallimaufry of the handbag through the ages.