Christmas with Dorothy and Louisa

Two recent additions to the literary authors collections are perfect for the upcoming Christmas season!

First: A Merry Christmas, and Other Stories (Penguin, 2014) anthologizes Louisa May Alcott’s holiday-themed short fiction and passages from novels like Little Women. There are numerous compilations of Alcott’s Christmas tales in the Alcott Collection, including picture books. Call number: Alcott Collection PS 1016 2014

Second: Scotland’s poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy transports readers to the Lake District on Christmas Eve, 1799, in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Christmas Birthday, a poem illustrated by Tom Duxbury (Picador, 2014). Call number: Rowe Collection PR 6054 .U38 D67 2014.