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PJ Lynch's illustrations for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Maurice Sendak's The Nutcracker (1984). He did not care for the bland, smoothed out tale most people are familiar with through the ballet but was drawn to the weird, darker elements of Hoffmann's original.
The Wind in the Willows illustrations by Gretchen Ellen Powers
Victorian Christmas cards that seem more like holiday warnings than greetings
Babar & Father Christmas by Jean de Brunhoff, who was born #OTD in 1899.
Ever since I first saw this illustration by @naokosstoop, I find myself often imagining what kind of story it would be if Anne Shirley had followed the White Rabbit to Wonderland...