Holiday Stories in the Public Domain

Copies of most of the following can be ordered via the Espresso Book Machine at Third Place Book's Lake Forest Park location for around $9-13./book.

• Good Stories for Great Birthdays: Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott (Primarily patriotic)
• Our American Holidays: Washington's Birthday Ed. by Robert Haven Schauffler
• Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday Ed. by Robert Haven Schauffler
• The Days We Celebrate: Celebrations for Festivals by Robert Haven Schauffler
• Good Stories for Great Holidays: Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott
• The Red Indian Fairy Book: For the Child's Own Reading and for Story-Tellers by Frances Jenkins Olcott (Native American legends organized by month)
• The Children's Book of Patriotic Stories: The Spirit of '76 (Stories Appropriate to the Fourth of July and Washington's Birthday) Ed. by Asa Don Dickinson
• The Children's Second Book of Patriotic Stories: The Spirit of '61 (Stories Appropriate to Decoration Day and Lincoln's Birthday) Ed. by Asa Don Dickinson
• The Days We Celebrate: Celebrations for Patriotic Days by Robert Haven Schauffler
• The Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgiving by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor Skinner
• The Pearl Story Book: Stories & Legends of Winter, Christmas and New Year's Day by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor Skinner
• The Emerald Story Book: Stories and Legends of Spring, Nature and Easter by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor Skinner
• The Turquoise Story Book: Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor Skinner
• Our American Holidays: Thanksgiving Ed. by Robert Haven Schauffler
• The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Ed. by Asa Don Dickinson
• The Book of Christmas by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Our American Holidays: Christmas Ed. by Robert Haven Schauffler
• Christmas in Legend and Story: A Book for Boys and Girls by Elva S. Smith
• Round the Year in Myth and Song by Florence Holbrook
• History Stories for Primary Grades by John Walter Wayland
• Our American Holidays: Easter Ed. by Robert Haven Schauffler
• Spring and Summer School Celebrations by Alice Maude Kellogg
• The Year's Festivals by Helen Philbrook Patten
• The Book of Holidays By J. Walker McSpadden
• Days and Deeds: A Book of Verse for Children's Reading and Speaking by Elizabeth Shepard Butler Stevenson
• Stories of our Holidays By Isabel M. Horsford (A reader for the lower grades)

For a wide variety of thematic lists, see: Books for Boys and Girls