With its colorful paintings and 81/2-by-111/2-inch size, “The Christmas Story” has the look of a children’s picture book. Indeed, it’s a book to share with children. But this retelling of the first ...

One of the most charming forms of two-dimensional American folk art is the distinctive Pennsylvania German style of drawing and calligraphy known as fraktur, more properly called fraktur schriften, or ...