Professor and Poet Makes Holiday Book Recommendations

Newswise — Lisa Russ Spaar, a University of Virginia English professor and award-winning poet, looks at literature through a poet's eyes. Her recommendations vary from the children's book, "Tibet Through the Red Box," which "contains rich evocations of winter holidays spent in exile," to "The Bird's Christmas Carol," by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, originally published in 1888 and just reprinted this fall.