02401cam a22003373u 4500 77767 UtSlPG 20260610134813.0 m cr n 260607r20261920utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 20019659 UtSlPG en iso639-1 PZ Smith, Nora Archibald, 1859-1934 The Christmas child Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2026 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2026-01-24 Charlene 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) The 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.) Originally published: Boston: Houghton Miffline Company/The Riverside Press, 1920 Christmas -- Juvenile poetry Children's poetry, American https://archive.org/details/christmaschildan00smitrich/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77767 118487 118487