Christmas Stories

Setting aside his time devoted to university teaching, philosophy, and the legal profession, and sheltered beneath the fertile, solid, and respected roof of his home, Pedro Fernández de Córdova Álvarez has woven his Christmas Tales with his young children in mind and, with great generosity, also for all the children of the world.

My friend, our friend Pedro, with the vocation and devotion of a teacher, conveys tenderness and simplicity, delivering a message of sweetness, love, and peace, and inviting warm reflection at the moment when the universal community celebrates Christmas.

With agile and empathetic language, his stories place the reader in time and space, and lead us, now as adults, to recall our childhood hopes and enduring longings.

We are pleased to help bring these tales—“Old Noel,” “The Christmas Tree,” “The Angel of Tenderness,” and “The Longed-for Gift”—to the public at a time when humanity most needs a reunion.