Books for Christmas....

We are in a Christmas book frenzy here.  I've been pulling off the shelf and currently have around thirty more Christmas books on hold at the library. Levi is the perfect age for snuggling up with picture books and it never fails as soon as I crack a spine, the big kids come too. A few we're reading from the shelf this year are...

The Animals' Christmas Carol by Helen Ward
Cranberry Christmas by Wende and Harry Devlin
An Early American Christmas by Tomie dePaola
Christmas Tapestry by Patricia Polacco
The Christmas Miracle by Jonathan Tommey
Christmas in the Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
The Twelve Days of Christmas by Jan Brett
Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve? by Jan Brett

Something new that I'm looking forward to reading this year is The Jesse Tree by Geraldine McCaughrean. I've seen it listed on a few blogs and book lists, but have never read it.

The following titles are from our library list...

The Remarkable Christmas of the Cobbler's Son by Ruth Sawyer
The Christmas Bird by Bernadett Watts
A Small Miracle by Peter Collington
An Orange for Frankie by Patricia Polacco
The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden
Becky's Christmas by Tasha Tudor
Christmas in the Stable by Astrid Lindgren
The Gift from Saint Nicholas by Dorthea Lachner
The Baker's Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale retold by Aaron Shepard
Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck 
Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo
Christmas in Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren
Silver Packages  An Appalachian Christmas Story by Cynthia Rylant
The Wee Christmas Cabin of Carn-na-ween by Ruth Sawyer
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story by Gloria Houston
Why Christmas Trees Aren't Perfect by Richard H. Schneider 
Shoemaker Martin based on a story by Leo Tolstoy
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert E. Barry
Christmas Eve by Edith Thatcher Hurd
The Last Straw by Frederick H. Thury
The Little Drummer Boy Ezra Jack Keats
Mary Engelbreit's Nutcracker by Mary Engelbreit
The Donkey's Dream by Barbara Helen Berger
The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado
Children of the Forest by Elsa Beskow
Ollie's Ski Trip by Elsa Beskow
Inventing the Christmas Tree by Bernd Brunner
Amahl and the Night Visitors Roger Duvoisin
Annika's Secret Wish by Bevery Lewis
The Twelve Days of Christmas by Laurel Long
The Twelve Days of Christmas by Brian Wildsmith

Some Christmas books that we've enjoyed in the past are...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Jotham's Journey by Arnold Ytreeide
A Tree for Peter by Kate Seredy 
The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin
A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles Schulz
Lion in the Box by Marguerite De Angeli

What are your favorite Christmas books? Feel free to share in the comments below.