My boys love books. As they should. They've been read to basically continually since conception. So when i read the idea on the now-defunct Tales from the Crib blog and again at Corinne's blog about a Christmas book countdown, i wanted to start the tradition in my own home. This year was the year.
Doug and i have collected Christmas books over the years. Long before we had kids. And more in the past few years once the boys joined us. I took advantage of the Scholastic Book Club at Bode's preschool and ordered a few more books this year. And found a few more at Borders and Barnes & Noble. I've been very good to booksellers this year. I'm pretty happy with my stash o' books. So far i have 19 for this year. So we started this week. They're wrapped up and numbered and everyday after lunch we find the next one to be read. The boys alternate who gets to open it. We read it. And read it again for Keegen's nap routine. And read it again for the boys' bedtime routine. What can i say? We love new books around here.
Here's my list of Christmas books this year. A couple of the ones from the book club i'll probably replace next year because, while they're fine, they're not favorites. And soon i'll replace a couple that are board books. And some we'll always keep for this. So it will be something that can change and grow with us.
19. Merry Christmas, Curious George--gotta love a $5 Kohl's book!
18. Santa's Favorite Story by Hisako Aoki
17. Christmas Mice by Bethany Roberts (book club)
16. Olive, the Other Reindeer by Seibold and Walsh
15. Christmas in the Manger board book
14. Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn & Mark Buehner
13. Bear's First Christmas by Robert Kinerk
12. This is the Stable by Cynthia Cotten
11. A book club one that's wrapped and i forget the name. Something with another mouse.
10. Toot and Puddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas by Holly Hobbie (is that really her name?)
9. The Christmas Story with Ruth Morehead's Holly Babes
8. Mooseltoe by Margie Palatini
7. Olivia Helps with Christmas by Ian Falconer
6. Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson
5. Small Camel Follows the Star by Rachel W.N. Brown
4. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Suess
2. Mortimer's Christmas Manger by Karma Wilson
1. Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore--ours is a board book
If anyone has a suggestion for other favorites and must-haves, let me know!
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Very neat!! My kids love Olive the Other Reindeer. They also love If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, it's by the same author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
i love that idea (cribs is defunct?). sounds like you and i have been buying a lot of the same books from book orders.... :) (i meant to tell you that about bear's first christmas...) did you get one snowy night? one winter's day? dream snow?
Okay you are going to be sorry you asked-what can I say my mom is a librarian
Snowmen at Night
Way up in the artic-(not really christmas but wintery-great illustrations and hidden numbers my kids love to find)
Santa's new Jet(My kids really like this one)
Any Robert Sabuda pop up book they are amazing)but delicate)
My Penguin Osbert
If you take a mouse to the movies.
Nice job! I found that I had about 27 Christmas books, so I wrapped 24 of them. We've read about 6 of the ones on your list so far! We LOVE Olivia (that's a new one this year) and Toot and Puddle (new again) and they'd forgotten all about Snowmen at Night and at Christmas. I'm going to post the ones we've read so far pretty soon, and I'll star our faves!
Thanks for sharing, Ashlee. I look forward to reading your blog regularly!
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