title: Chicken Soup for the Soul Christmas Treasury: Holiday Stories to Warm the Heart
author: Jack Canfield
description: Proving, perhaps, that too much is never enough, editors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen serve up the latest course in their inspirational and ubiquitous food-for-the-spirit series with Chicken Soup for the Soul Christmas Treasury: Holiday Stories to Warm the Heart. It's a mixed bag O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi" follows a man's rumination on Santa Claus as a metaphor for God, filial love, or both but familiar fare nonetheless, and the treacly sweet stories about the true meaning of Christmas promise to be gobbled up by thousands as they stand in the gift-wrap line. <br />Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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  **CHICKEN SOUP**  
   **FOR THE SOUL** ®  
  **CHRISTMAS**  
   **TREASURY**  
    
    
  
  
  **Holiday Stories  
  to Warm the Heart **  
    
  
  
  Jack Canfield  
  Mark Victor Hansen  
    
  
  
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  Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC
  
  
  Cos Cob, CT
  
  
  **_[www.chickensoup.com](http://www.chickensoup.com)_**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  [Introduction](../xhtml/4-d7e129212.xhtml#d7e2) _Penny Porter_
  
  
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  **1\. THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS**](../xhtml/5-d7e160716.xhtml#d7e4)
  
  
  [The Gift of Grr-face](../xhtml/6-d7e164617.xhtml#d7e5) _Gary Swanson_
  
  
  [The Christmas Rose](../xhtml/7-d7e338431.xhtml#d7e7) _Lt. Colonel Marlene
  Chase_
  
  
  [One Cup at a Time](../xhtml/8-d7e410837.xhtml#d7e8) _Steven Dodrill_
  
  
  [Christmas Presence](../xhtml/9-d7e458341.xhtml#d7e9) _Laura Lagana_
  
  
  [Reptiles Reconciled](../xhtml/10-d7e496745.xhtml#d7e10) _Linda C. Raybern_
  
  
  [Delayed Delivery ](../xhtml/11-d7e514847.xhtml#d7e11)