- Pearl Story Book: Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas, and New Year's Day
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A collection of Christmas, Winter, and New Year tales and poems compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner
- Chapters
- Introduction
- Winter (selection)
- The Ice King (Indian legend)
- A Song of the Snow (poem)
- King Frost and King Winter (adapted)
- The Snowstorm (poem)
- The First Winter (Iroquois legend)
- Snow Song (poem)
- The Snow Maiden (Russian legend. Translated from the French)
- The Frost King (poem)
- King Winter’s Harvest
- Old King Winter (poem)
- Sheltering Wings
- Snowflakes (selection)
- The Snow-Image
- The First Snow-Fall
- The Voice of the Pine Trees (Japanese legend)
- The Pine Tree Maiden (Indian legend)
- The Holly
- The Fable of the Three Elms (poem)
- The Pine and the Willow
- Why the Wild Rabbits Are White in Winter (Algonquin legend retold)
- The Yew
- How the Pine Tree Did Some Good
- A Wonderful Weaver (poem)
- The Pine and the Flax
- The Fir Tree (poem)
- Why Bruin Has a Stumpy Tail (Norwegian legend)
- Pines and Firs
- Who Loves the Trees Best? (poem)
- A Christmas Song
- The Shepherd Maiden’s Gift (Eastern legend)
- Christmas Gifts
- Silver Bells (poem)
- The Animals’ Christmas Tree
- A Christmas Carol
- Holly
- The Willow Man (poem)
- The Ivy Green (selection)
- Legend of St. Nicholas
- Christmas Bells (selection)
- A Night With Santa Claus
- A Child’s Thought About Santa Claus (poem)
- Charity in a Cottage
- The Waits (poem)
- Where Love Is There God Is Also (adapted)
- God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
- The Glad New Year (poem)
- The Bad Little Goblin’s New Year
- Selection
- The Queen of the Year (poem)
- The New Year’s Bell
- The New Year
- The Child and the Year (poem)
- A Masque of the Days
- Ring Out, Wild Bells (poem)
- The Bells (selection)
- A January Thaw
- The Snow Man
- The Happy Prince
- The Legend of King Wenceslaus (adapted)
- Midwinter (poem)
- Old Winter (poem)
- The Snowball That Didn’t Melt
- Gau-wi-di-ne and Go-hay (Iroquois legend retold)
- Naming the Winds (Indian legend retold)
- North Wind’s Frolic (translated)
- The Months: A Pageant (adapted)
- Prince Winter
- How Spring and Winter Met (poem)