Jean Shepherd
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Language
English
Description
Ralph goes back to his hometown of Hohman, Indiana, runs into an old chum, and remembers growing up. An affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family's typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town, Depression-era Indiana. This novel would later serve as the basis for the 1983 movie, A Christmas Story.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Christmas story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is young Ralphie Parker's shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father's pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp and, most crucially, Ralphie's unstoppable campaign to get Santa or anyone else to give him a Red Ryder carbine...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox.
The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and...
The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
From the wild and wacky world of a favorite funnyman, a dozen truer-than-life tales of tailgating on the Jersey Turnpike, infuriating infants, and other everyday catastrophes, defeats, and humiliations that are the familiar fate of Americans everywhere.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories is a universal (and achingly funny) orchestration of Midwestern puberty rites, from the gut-wrenching playground antics of one Delbert Bumpus, to the supernal glow surrounding unapproachable high school beauty Daphne Bigelow, to the memorable disaster that was Shepherd's (and everyone else's) junior prom.
Language
English
Description
In 1940s Indiana, nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of his ideal Christmas gift: a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot carbine action air rifle. But when gruff dad and doting mom regularly respond with "You'll shoot your eye out!" Ralphie mounts a full-scale Santa-begging campaign. He encounters a slew of calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A young boy must convince his parents that a toy rifle is the only Christmas gift that will make Christmas worthwhile. Not only do his parents face what many other parents do during that time of the year, but their actions fit in with the All-American Christmas.
11) My summer story
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
It's business as usual in the summer at the Parkers'. Ralphie is looking for a top to beat the school bully, Old Man is fighting with the neighbors, and Mother is collecting a glass china set at the local movie theater. Sequel to A Christmas Story.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A young boy must convince his parents that a toy rifle is the only Christmas gift that will make Christmas worthwhile. Not only do his parents face what many other parents do during that time of the year, but their actions fit in with the All-American Christmas.
Publisher
Barrington Public Library
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A Christmas Story: A young boy must convince his parents that a toy rifle is the only Christmas gift that will make Christmas worthwhile. Not only do his parents face what many other parents do during that time of the year, but their actions fit in with the All-American Christmas.
Home Alone: An eight-year-old boy is left home alone on Christmas, and has to defend his home against two bumbling burglars.
Miracle on 34th Street: In this Oscar-winning...
Publisher
Cranston Public Library
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A Christmas Story: A young boy must convince his parents that a toy rifle is the only Christmas gift that will make Christmas worthwhile. Not only do his parents face what many other parents do during that time of the year, but their actions fit in with the All-American Christmas.
Miracle on 34th Street (Motion picture : 1994): Remake of the 1947 movie in which Kris Kringle (Attenborough), while working at Macy's, encounters an unbelieving child...
