Introduction / Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh -- Babouscka / Carolyn Sherwin Bailey -- The hundred dresses / Eleanor Estes -- A letter from Santa Claus / Eleanor Estes -- Eliot Miles does not wish you a Merry Christmas because ... E.L. Konigsburg -- A full house / Madeleine L'Engle -- Once in the year / Elizabeth Yates -- The merry history of a Christmas pie / Nancy Willard -- The Christmas fake / Lois Lenski -- Woodrow Kennington works practically a miracle / Katherine Paterson -- All through the night / Rachel Field -- The Christmas apple / Ruth Sawyer -- A candle for St. Bridget / Ruth Sawyer -- The galloping sleigh / Hugh Lofting -- Ramona, the sheep suit, and the three wise persons / Beverly Cleary -- About the authors -- About the editors.