What was your favourite Christmas story when you were a kid?

I love going to see The Nutcracker.

Scrooge with Albert Finney – still watch it every year

Disney’s rendition of A Christmas Carol

For some reason, I recall loving the Little Golden Book The Cat Who Climbed the Christmas Tree. Every year up until middle school, I would grab armfuls of my own toys and orchestrate their trek up the tree in the living room.

My favourite now is A Muppet Christmas Carol. I love Gonzo as Charles Dickens :)

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas was always my favorite.

There was this little book about a Santa Mouse and he would go out giving presents…I can’t remember the title or anything else about it, because we lost it at some point. But it was really cute, and I would want it read to me constantly around the holidays.

The Little Drummer Boy was my favorite as a child. I haven’t seen it in 35 years, and don’t really remember the story, beside the moment when he played his drum, but the song still brings a tear to my eye. I like the idea that even if you have nothing, you still have something to give.

My Mom would read us many Christmas stories. The one book she always made a tradition of reading was The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen. Before reading the story on our special night around the tree, she always started with a beautiful true oral history of herself and her only sister (who died of cancer) as very poor little girls who didn’t know about Christmas and when they were older and discovered how other children celebrated, her mother told them Santa didn’t come to their house. My mother and all of my brothers and sisters would sob through The Little Match Girl.

To this day I still love that story and I still cry when I read it.

@Seelix I love The Best Christmas Pageant Ever! Thank you for the reminder!!

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the book and original cartoon) is my classic.

How The Grinch Stole Christmas is my favorite. It’s such a good story.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard I just watched Disney’s Xmas Carol last night. It cracks me up that Mr. Fezziwig is Mr. Toad! We have it on a VHS tape! I know, we should have a DVR and get with the program.

I always loved The Littlest Angel. I had this book and there was an Xmas special (starring Johnny Whittaker), but I haven’t seen it in over 20 years. Anybody remember that?

And I was just reminded that there was a Mr. Magoo version of a Christmas carol too that was pretty funny.

@Kardamom I had nearly forgotten about the The Littlest Angel. I remembered because of the mention of Johnny Whittaker. (I loved Family Affair. I even had a Mrs. Beasley.)

Grinch. I was always on the side of the Grinch, though.

It’s always been the Nutcracker. My father would read the book to me every Christmas eve, and well he still does.

When I was a child, my favourite was the Little Match Girl. So sad.

My favorite Christmas story has always been A Christmas Carol. Scrooge faces death or redemption. What more can you want?

The same as now, the story of the birth of Christ.

the Little Match Girl. So sad.
Same as @downtide

I also love The Gift of the Magi. O’Henry was a master.

There was a story I loved, called L’Ange et le Démon, The Angel and the Demon, I’m sure you guessed. It had this poor homeless girl who…sold snowballs by the church on Sunday. (Kinda like that girl who sold matches.) Or tried to, and as you guessed, failed miserably.
That church she tried selling the snowballs at had two statues on top, a demon and an angel. And these came to life. Thee demon was a prick of course, tormenting people and pulling shit on everyone. The angel was sweet and gentle, but surprised everyone in the end for going apeshit on the demon who framed the homeless girl for thievery, and kicked his ass to no end. That part of the book had one of the most striking pictures I’ve ever seen in my childhood life.
I don’t actually remember all of it, I mean I was like fucking six, but I do remember I loved it, and I certainly remember the drawing. That was some epic shit. I could have believed in God back then. Too bad now.

Granted it has fuckall to do with Christmas really, but the story itself happened during the holidays, so that counts right?