Christmas Display

There is a Christmas-theme display up now, located on the desk between the circulation desk and the stairwell.   We have a surprising number of items in the collection, including children's books, about Christmas.

If you still have a turntable, check out a vinyl LP of a famous actor--like Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Richardson, Basil Rathbone--performing Dickens' A Christmas Carol.  

                

Basil Rathbone as Marley's Ghost                        Orson Welles narrating                                         Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge

                                                                                    A Christmas Carol for a 

                                                                                          radio broadcast

                                                                                                                                                                                                    

 

                                                  

This copy of The Night Before Christmas  is the only book I have

seen where the introduction is longer than the text, which is two pages.

Books from 1900 to recently published ones, and even some scripts of Christmas-theme plays.  Just think, you and the family could sit by the fireside and do a reading of an adaptation of A Christmas Carol  or  Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge, or  Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol.



Have a very happy holiday season!
Best regards from your friends at Fogelson Library,
Val Nye, Laura Perleberg, Brother Jim Brown, and Morgan Light