We first spied Christmas villages in the 1966 edition of BH&G's Christmas Ideas book. In it, our editors suggested building a collection of fairy-tale houses from wood or cardboard to hang or display.

the village includes a whopping 264 houses and accessories, skyrocketing its price. When the first “Harry Potter” movie came out, it wasn’t marketed as a Christmas movie. Still, the scenes ...

It was also a much smaller village when I first started, slowly adding a house or two each year, and I'm sure I will still buy more this year! My Christmas village actually sits within a cubby of ...

A holiday tale of sisterly envy and greed Like so many good little Christmas worshippers, each year, amid the trimming of the tree and the curse-laden hanging of the outdoor lights, my younger ...