Christmas Treasury: Family Classic Edition

by Scott Gustafson, Marty Noble, Kat Thacker

Family Classic Edition features favorite and traditional Christmas stories and carols gathered together in a deluxe padded hardcover format featuring quality matte-finish paper with gold-gilded edges. Carols include words and music. Full-color illustrations and decorative borders throughout make this the perfect book to give as a special gift.

Genres: Christmas, Childrens

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Scott Gustafson has had the opportunity to illustrate a number of archetypal children’s books such as Peter Pan, Nutcracker, Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose, and Classic Fairy Tales, the last two titles published by Artisan. In 2011, he tried his hand at writing and illustrating, and his first novel, Eddie: The Lost Youth of Edgar Allan Poe, was published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Children.

Scott's latest title, Classic Bedtime Stories, is published by Artisan.

In addition, Scott has worked on film projects for DreamWorks and PDI and has created character designs for the animated TV show, "Chugginton."

His illustrations also appear in limited-edition prints published by The Greenwich Workshop and on collector plates, greeting cards, and gift wrap.

Reviews

[Sandy · Rating 2 out of 5]

What was different about this treasury was a few pages on many different countries and how they celebrate Christmas. I loved that. There was other stories spread throughout.

[Charity · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was handed down to my family in a box of books that contained mostly stinkers. I saved it because the cover was squishy and it had seemingly decent illustrations.
But it's turning into one of my favorite anthologies to pull out for my kids at Christmas time. It has a nice range of Christmas stories, both classic ("Gift of the Magi") and less well known ("The Christmas Spiders"??). It has several slice-of-life descriptions of how Advent is celebrated in other countries (Ethiopia, Italy, Mexico, etc.). But I think my favorite part is that it has a selection of Christmas carols reproduced with actual music notation. My kids have favorites they want me to read every night, and these favorites have changed through the years.
TL,DR: I thought this book would be cheap trash, but it has been a lovely addition to my family's Christmas books. It will probably have something to offer my kids for several more years.

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a hard book to find, typing in the words "Christmas Treasury" gets you all kinds of things none of which are the right "Christmas Treasure", but I finally found it. The contents in this book are:

Christmas Comes but Once a Year

A Chritmas Carol

I Am the Christmas Spirit

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Christmas in England

A Christmas Miracle

The First Christmas Tree

Here We Come A-Caroling

The First Christmas Tree Lights

O Christmas Tree

The Story of Christmas Spiders

O Little Town of Bethlehem

The First Christmas

The Friendly Beasts

Christmas in Italy

and Christmas in Germany

And that is only a few things that are in this book filled with Christmas. The illustrations are beautiful, and they are on almost every page of the book. It must have taken the artist forever to finish it. What would feel like forever anyway. It is one of my favorite books.

[Robert Drake · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love 😍 the many Christmas 🤶 stories.

[A. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful christmas stories that I am reading to Samantha before she goes to sleep.