A Timeless Christmas: A Collection of Classic Stories and Poems

About L. Frank BaumLouisa May AlcottO. Henry

L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and received enormous immediate success. Baum went on to write seventeen additional novels in the Oz series. Today he is considered the father of the American fairy tale. His stories inspired the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz one of the most widely viewed movies of all time.Michael Sieben is a professional designer and illustrator primarily within the sub-culture of skateboarding whose work has been exhibited and reviewed worldwide as well as featured in numerous illustration anthologies. He is a staff writer and illustrator for Thrasher magazine and a weekly columnist for VICE.com. He is also a founding member of Okay Mountain Gallery and Collective in Austin Texas as well as the cofounder of Roger Skateboards. The author of There's Nothing Wrong with You (Hopefully) he lives and works in Austin. Louisa May Alcott was a 19th-century American novelist best known for her novel Little Women as well as its well-loved sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women is renowned as one of the very first classics of childrens literature and remains a popular masterpiece today. William Sydney Porter (18621910)better known as O. Henryis one of the world's most widely published writers. A master of the short story he is the author of more than six hundred tales that have been translated into nearly every language. He is best known for his stories about New York City which include The Gift of the Magi and The Purple Dress.