5- The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson
Originally published as part of Andersen’s fifth volume of Fairy Tales in 1848, The Little Match Girl is an original Andersen story inspired by a Johan Thomas Lundbye drawing and loosely based on an incident that happened to Andersen’s mother when she was a child. The Little Match Girl shed a light on a very oppressed and silent group in Europe — its children.
4- The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, by L. Frank Baum L. Frank Baum is best known for creating the land of Oz, but he turned his attention away from Dorothy and the gang to offer his own unique history of Santa Claus, which explains where His Jolliness came from, and how he decided to give away presents each Christmas season:
3-The Nutcracker and The Mouse King by E.T.A Hoffman
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in 1816 by E. T. A. Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaum’s favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. In 1892, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned the story into the ballet The Nutcracker, which became one of Tchaikovsky’s most famous compositions, and one of the most popular ballets in the world.
2- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer by Robert L. May
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is a character created in a story and song by the same name. The story was created by Robert L. May in 1939 as part of his employment with Montgomery Ward. In its first year of publication, Montgomery Ward distributed 2.4 million copies of Rudolph’s story. Johnny Marks decided to adapt May’s story into a song, which through the years has been recorded by many artists. It was first sung commercially by crooner Harry Brannon on New York City radio in the latter part of 1948 before Gene Autry recorded it formally in 1949, and has since filtered into the popular consciousness.
1- A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens From Mr. Magoo to the Muppets, it's hard to find a pop-culture entity that hasn't put its own stamp on Ebenezer Scrooge's life-changing encounter with the three ghosts of Christmas. But no matter how familiar, Dickens' original 1843 novella still manages to have a powerful impact.