Simple Gifts (1977)

A collection of animated Christmas shorts An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas An excerpt from the early part of Virginia Woolfs Orlando set in a time of extreme cold in Tudor England A short based on the Toonerville Trolley A bittersweet excerpt from Moss Harts autobiography Act One narrated by Jose Ferrer A reading from the Christmas day entry from the diary of 11yearold Teddy Roosevelt A reading of a letter by Captain Edward James Hulse describing the surprising Christmas Truce of 1914 An animated version by RO Blechman of his own book Tutto Esaurito No Vacancy about the travels of Mary and Joseph