02370cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000380012624500240016426400510018830000470023933600260028633700260031233800360033850000310037450801930040552011750059853400870177365300330186065300320189385600760192585600430200177767UtSlPG20260610134813.0mcr n260607r20261920utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a20019659  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPZ1 aSmith, Nora Archibald,d1859-193414aThe Christmas child 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-01-24  aCharlene Taylor, Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aThe Christmas child by Nora Archibald Smith is a collection of children’s poems written in the early 20th century. It blends reverent Christmas pieces, folktales, and seasonal songs with playful animal vignettes and gentle moral lessons, all pitched to delight and guide young readers.

The opening of The Christmas child centers on Christmas, first praising the “Christmas child” as generous and kind, then staging a processional of the Magi alongside modern pilgrims, lively Santa songs, and tender Nativity scenes where animals share the Christ-night. Brief fables and legends follow—a benevolent gnome gifts forest creatures, a good fir becomes a Christmas tree, a German thief is banished to the moon, a wren warms the Holy Babe, and a “Christ-Flower” blooms where an infant was found—while child-voiced pieces revel in secret gift-giving and gently chide selfishness. The section widens to winter and New Year cheer, kindness to birds in Norway, and light, imaginative sketches (a boastful snowflake, a bustling Goose Fair, a fairy ring), keeping a warm, musical tone and clear, simple morals throughout. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cBoston: Houghton Miffline Company/The Riverside Press, 1920  aChristmas -- Juvenile poetry  aChildren's poetry, American4 uhttps://archive.org/details/christmaschildan00smitrich/page/n5/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77767