ISBN:

• 9780916260682
• 0916260682

Edition: First edition.

Description: 294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title: Christmas plays.

Contents:

• part1. Elementary grades: O holy night / by Arthur L. Zapel, Jr.
• The little match girl / by Hans Christian Andersen.
• How God came to us / by Michael E. Dixon.
• Thank you, Santa / by Anne L. Nunley.
• part2. Middle grades: An animals' Christmas / by Janet Meili.
• Was it a star? / by Joanna Evans.
• Santa goes on strike / by Robert A. Mauro.
• A most memorable Christmas / by Janet Meili.
• part3. Programs for teens and adults: Angels, please come to order / by Alexander T. Coyle.
• Dateline: Bethlehem / by Marian Dean Ekin.
• The promised king / by Janet Litherland.
• Recollections of a birthday / by Janet Meili.
• part4. Readers theatre for Christmas: Now Christmas has come / by Melvin R. White.
• Joseph, Mary, Bethlehem, a manger, angels, and all that / by John Buttrey.
• Those fools, the wise men / by Marion Fairman.
• Joseph of Nazareth / by Martha Sliter Sheeran.
• The customs of Christmastide / by Martha-Jean Rockey.

• part5. Adaptations from classics and legends: Gabriel Grubb's Christmas dance / by Charles Dickens ; dramatized by Douglas Roome.
• The first Christmas creche / by Betty Kelly and Arthur Zapel.
• The second shepherd's play / by Thomas Hatton.
• The very best kind of Christmas tree / by Henry Van Dyke ; adapted by Alethea Gasser.
• part6. Christmas readings: A visit from St. Nicholas / by Clement Clark Moore.
• The gift of the magi / by O. Henry (Sidney William Porter)
• Is there a Santa Claus? / by Francis P. Church.
• Christmas at the White House / by President Theodore Roosevelt.
• Keeping Christmas / by Henry Van Dyke.

LCCN: 90053278

Control Number: 53516

Subjects:

• Children's plays, American.
• Christmas plays, American.
• Young adult drama, American.

Genre:

• One-act plays.
• Theatrical adaptations.

Other Authors: Zapel, Theodore O., 1955-