I'm looking for an anthology of children's Christmas stories. I
remember one about a boy who found a magical Christmas tree angel in
the attic and wished for something stupid that ends up making him
miserable and shows him how much he likes his life the way it is. But,
the story I?m really interested in is about a girl from a poor family
who wasn?t going to have anything to celebrate Christmas (gifts,
decorations, special foods, etc.). So, on Christmas Eve, she gets out
a brand new box of crayons and decides to draw decorations (wreath,
tree, etc.) on large pieces of cardboard (maybe to surprise a little
brother?). Then the story gets a little fuzzy. I think when she opens
the box of crayons to admire the ?new crayon smell,? they start to
talk to her. She ends up drawing lots of things and goes to bed. In
the morning, all of her drawings have come to life (or maybe they just
smell like what they?re supposed to be). I tried googling for the
story, but I can?t find it. Can you help?

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 28 Nov 2005 19:09 PST

In approximatley what years did you first encounter this book?

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 28 Nov 2005 19:10 PST

"... approximately..."

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Clarification of Question by katya0133-ga on 29 Nov 2005 07:47 PST

We had it when I was little, so maybe around 1985-90.

I found these sites with many children's story anthologies.
http://loganberrybooks.com/most-anthologies.html
http://www.geraldinemccaughrean.co.uk/Anthologiesx.html

There is a site where people have posted their questions about old
stories and there are also many answers to those queries.
http://www.logan.com/loganberry/nostalgia.html