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Little Elephant's Christmas (1938) by Heluiz Chandler Washburne, the second instalment in her Little Elephant children's book series, is a heartwarming tale of a young elephant's anticipation and celebration of Christmas. It captures the excitement of receiving and giving gifts, decorating the Christmas tree, and spending time with family. As Little Elephant engages in holiday activities, such as helping with the Christmas pudding and opening his stocking filled with surprises, the story conveys the magic and joy of the festive season through the eyes of a child.

Little Elephant was all excited. In a few days it would be Christmas. School was over and snow lay white and thick on the ground. Many times each day the bell in the kitchen went ting-a-ling-a-ling and Little Elephant rushed to the door to see who was there. Sometimes it was the expressman who drove up in a truck and dumped a big box or two. Sometimes it was the postman who came up the path with a mail bag of little bundles swinging from his trunk.

There were long bundles, short bundles, flat bundles, round bundles, thin bundles, square bundles—bundles, bundles, bundles! And all of them were pasted over with bright red Christmas seals. . . .

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Stops of Various Quills (1895)

by William Dean Howells, illustrated by Howard Pyle

The Perfumed Garden (1886)

by Richard Francis Burton

Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (2006)

by Ministerio de Comunicación e Información

The Power of the Spirit (1919)

by Percy Dearmer

Conventional Lies of our Civilization (1883)

by Max Simon Nordau

Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine (1898)

by William James

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