Baby to pre-school. Press the star on the front cover of this sturdy book & the mellow tones of a full orchestra begin the familiar ' Silent Night'. While the music is playing, a halo of tiny white lights around the baby Jesus glow, then dim, then glow again. Toddlers & their parents can sing along with the words in the book. ...

Bringing together one of the most unlikely & touching events of World War I, this book tells the story of Chritmas Eve 1914 when men on both sides left their trenches, laid down their arms & joined a spontaneous celebration with their new friends, the enemy. ...

This festive cartoon tells the story of Abib, the cheeky but loveable donkey who carries Mary, mother of Jesus, to Bethlehem in time to give birth. Following King Herod's order for all people to return to the place of their birth, all the best travelling animals are quickly taken, so Mary & her husband Joseph are left with the less than hard-working Abib. However, sensing that their situation is a special one, the donkey does his best to get the couple to Bethlehem, avoiding Herod's soldiers with the aid of his friends Jaffar the camel & Orion the horse. ...

Low-budget horror. In a small New England town on Christmas Eve, a deranged killer escapes from a lunatic asylum & begins to lure prominent members of the community to an old abandoned mansion, where he takes his bloody revenge for a crime committed there over thirty years ago. The owner of the deserted house returns from New York, where he was trying to sell the property, & together with the mayor's daughter, begins to investigate its sordid, violent history, a history of incest & murder that implicates every member of the town. ...

Seasonal slasher horror. After years of abuse from the cruel nuns who ran the orphanage where he spent his childhood following the brutal murder of his parents, the now-teenage Billy (Robert Brian Wilson) gets a job at a department store. When he is asked to dress up as Santa Claus at Christmas time, traumatic memories are triggered in his mind & he loses the plot, embarking on a bloodthirsty rampage & killing everyone who crosses his path. ...

Double bill of Christmas-themed US TV shows. ' Silent Night' (1968) is a drama-documentary, narrated by Kirk Douglas & starring James Mason, focusing on the history & origins of the famous hymn. 'A Christmas Carol' (1949) is a truncated version of the Dickens tale, narrated by Vincent Price & starring Taylor Holmes as Ebeneezer Scrooge. ...