Yuletide entertainments : $b Christmas recitations, monologues, drills, tableaux, motion songs, exercises, dialogues and plays

"Yuletide Entertainments" by Ellen M. (Ellen Melville) Willard is a set of festive performance materials and a guide to effective presentation. The book includes recitations filled with Christmas poems, one such poem involves a young girl learning the true meaning of the holiday when her wish for "Christmas Every Day" goes awry. The collection also introduces dialogues and monologues such as a boy’s adventure navigating Christmas shopping, and memories of past festive traditions. The collection provides a variety of ways both young and old may join in celebrating Christmas with education and cheer.

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