For December, I’ve swapped out the books on the girls’ bookcase and replaced them with Christmassy books instead. Next year I might be organised enough to wrap some for a book Advent calendar but this year we’ll just pick one each day to read together. We have a mixture of board books for Sophie and longer stories for Jessica. Most of them we already have, but we’ve ordered a few extras for this year. Here are our 31 books for Christmas:
- Dear Santa – Rod Campbell
- In the Night Garden: Everybody Loves Christmas – Andrew Davenport
- Peppa Pig – Peppa’s Christmas
- Mr Christmas – Roger Hargreaves
- Little Miss Christmas – Roger Hargreaves
- Mr Snow – Roger Hargreaves
- Mr Men – A Christmas Carol – Roger Hargreaves
- Mr Men – The Night Before Christmas – Roger Hargreaves
- Mr Men – 12 Days of Christmas – Roger Hargreaves
- Mr Men – A Christmas Pantomime – Roger Hargreaves
- Mr Men – A White Christmas – Roger Hargreaves
- Mr Men – Meet Father Christmas – Roger Hargreaves
- Mr Men – The Christmas Tree – Roger Hargreaves
- Baby’s First Christmas – Fiona Watt
- Who’s Hiding? – Vicki Howie
- The Fox’s Tale – Nick Butterworth & Mick Inkpen
- The Nativity – Fiona Watt
- Baby Jesus is Born – Juliet David
- How Many Sleeps till Christmas – Mark Sperring
- Guess How Much I Love You in the Winter – Sam McBratney & Anita Jeram
- Here Comes Santa – David Crossley
- Jesus’ Christmas Party – Nicholas Allen
- Peppa Pig & Me: Peppa and Jessica’s Christmas (from Penwizard)
- In The Night Garden: Sophie’s Christmas Party (from Penwizard)
- That’s Not My Snowman – Fiona Watt
- That’s Not My Reindeer – Fiona Watt
- Spot’s First Christmas – Eric Hill
- My First Christmas Collection: Santa – Ladybird
- My First Christmas Collection: Fairy – Ladybird
- My First Christmas Collection: Reindeer – Ladybird
- My First Christmas Collection: Snowman – Ladybird
What Christmassy books are on your list for your little ones?
What a brilliant idea! We have a few of the books you’ve featured. My little ones also love The Polar Express as well as a couple of French books. xx
Thanks Mel – will have to check out the Polar Express. We have a couple of French books too but nothing Christmassy – maybe that’s an idea for next year! 🙂
Hmm I’ve seen that a few people are doing this, and I think it’s a wonderful idea. I wish I was more organised!!! x
Thank you – most of the books we already had from last year – I just had to remember to swap them with the books in the bookcase x
Oh you’re going to have a wonderful time reading your way through that lot – and it must definitely feel Christmassy to swap all the favourites back in again each year 🙂
It is lovely to get those books out again – definitely makes it feel very Christmassy 🙂
What a lovely selection of Christmas books 🙂 I spy Peppa’s Christmas, my daughter has this book too. Enjoy! x
Thank you – In the Night Garden is proving to be the favourite so far, Jessica has read it to her toys umpteen times! 🙂
Ooh I didn’t know there were In The Night Garden Christmas books! Elsa will love that. We have been reading Goodnight Santa by Michelle Robinson (which I highly recommend- Elsa is a big fan!) and Dear Santa! #TheList
The In the Night Garden books are a big hit here – my eldest wants to ‘read’ them to her toys all the time! I will have to check out Goodnight Santa 🙂
Lovely list of books, thank you for sharing X
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Thanks Becky – glad you liked my list 🙂
I really love it that you have some traditional Christmas books on your list that tell the nativity story, I think it’s important in this day and age not to forget the real meaning of Christmas! On our Christmas list we have one called “The Night Before Christmas” and it’s a book I received when I was a little girl so I love reading it to my nearly 3 year old! xx
Thank you – Jessica loves her Bible stories so the nativity ones are great. How lovely to be sharing a book from your childhood with your child – I have a book from my mum’s childhood that I occasionally read to my children and it is lovely to pass some stories on down the generations x
Great selection of book hun, what lucky little girls. Thanks for linking up to #TheList x
Thanks Aby – lovely to link up again 🙂