Christmas Stories

The most traditional Christmas stories are "'Twas the night before Christmas", actually an American poem dating from 1823, and "The Christmas Carol", a novel by Charles Dickens. The animated film that we must highlight for this time, for being the one that is always shown on television every year, and whose song is heard numerous times on the radio and on television is that of "The Snowman".



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