My Favorite Christmas Books for Children

My days are filled with placing literary treasures into the hands of children as both a mom and a reading teacher. I’m currently responsbile for 52 little readers, in fact. These are a few of my personal favorite children’s books for Christmas. I hope this list serves you and the children in your life well.

• Silver Packages: An Appalacian Christmas Story by Cynthia Rylant
• Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck
• Diane Goode’s American Christmas
• Miracle in a Shoe Box: A Christmas Gift of Wonder by Franklin Graham
• The Berenstain Bears and the Joy of Giving
• An Orange for Frankie by Patricia Polacco
• The Biggest, Most Beautiful Christmas Tree by Amye Rosenberg
• Christmas in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• Christmas in the Country by Cynthia Rylant and Diane Goode
• The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy by Catherine Woolley
• Night Tree by Eve Bunting
• The Story of Holly and Ivey by Rumer Godden and Barbara Cooney
• The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski
• Great Joy by Kate DiCamillio
• The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado
• The Nutcracker by Susan Jeffers
• The Twelve Days of Christmas by Jan Brett
• Room for a Little One by Martin Waddell
• The Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet Ahlburg
• The Legend of the Candy Cane by Lori Walburg
• Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert E. Barry
• Welcome Comfort by Patricia Polacco
• The Animals’ Christmas Eve by Gale Wiersum
• Who is Coming to Our House? by Joseph Slate
• We Were There: A Nativity Story by Eve Bunting
• The Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett
• Little One, We Knew You’d Come by Sally Lloyd Jones
• Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus by Francis Pharcellus Church
• Mickey’s Christmas Carol: Classic Storybook by Walt Disney Company
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

From my reading heart to yours,

~Courtney