A small collection of the author's recollections of different Christmases. As promised in the
forward, all upbeat and positive.

One when he was a child tells of his family inviting the new neighbors to Christmas not
realizing they were Jewish.

Another, when the author was a teacher, he is chosen to direct the Christmas pageant,
he is appalled when Joseph make an adlib. However it was accepted by the audience.

Even one when he is hospitalized over Christmas manages to have some positive results.

rejoicing

I miss Leo

This is a fine collection of personal experiences of Leo Bus Anglia, with various ideas and locations, all with the sense of love, which is his signature. The places include Bali - where they cut a banana plant into the shape of a pine tree to serve as his Christmas tree.
He ends with a wish we could celebrate the joy of Christmas all days.

Well.... What can I say? I love Leo as a human being and a storyteller.
I really enjoyed this little book. It moved me and made me laugh. I felt like Leo was giving me one of his famous hugs through this book. I loved it!

At 110 pages this was a fun little book. I read it in one sitting the day after Thanksgiving. In this book Leo Buscaglia recounts seven memorable Christmases. The first three are when he was a child and the rest are as an adult. The last one was 1982 when he was in the hospital with a heart attack, although he lived several years after that.

In the first story, he was 7 years old with several siblings in a poor Italian Catholic family. He describes himself as being the worst behaved of the children in his family. It seems to me that famous people often describe themselves as not being well-behaved as children.

A few years ago I bought several small books with Christmas on the cover to use as part of my holiday decorations. As I was getting out Christmas decorations this year, I realized that I had never read some of the books and decided to read this one.

This book appealed to me because I had met the author. In the 1970's and early '80's, I was working in administration at a technical college in Wisconsin. Our District Director wrote grants to get funding for us to invite local high school vocational teachers to our campus for dinner and a presentation on various topics. Dr. Buscaglia had written several books and was a well-known speaker who also had the title "Dr. Love." He was one of the speakers we invited and I had an opportunity to meet him. I remember him as being very personable and his presentation was very well received.

This was a good read to get into the holiday spirit.

Paul

This is a wonderful walk down memory lane for us all to visit ole Christmas day and the feeling of the greatness of this auspicious Holiday! A quick read for the Holidays.

I thought the Christmas stories were nice, sort of quante. Reminded me of the type of Christmas story book I'd be read to at night, but the lack of child like theme just made it okay.

Entertaining, folksy stories with poignant spiritual applications.

A wonderful collection of the author's Christmas memories recalled throughout his life. My family and I very much enjoyed reading this together!

My favorite I have to read every year!!! This should be in everyones collections!

A family tradition.