My Favorite Christmas Books for Kids: All of Them!

Today, I’m joining my friend Leslie at Once Upon a Time, Happily Ever After to bring you a list of our favorite Christmas Children’s Books! Spoiler: I love ALL the Christmas books! ha!

I collect books! Like ALL BOOKS! So, it’s no surprise that I also have a TON of Christmas books! I keep an eye out for them all year long and look forward to December 1st when I can pull them all out for the kids. And when you pack them away like that during the year, it’s like opening a great big present on December 1st!

Below is a list of 51 books I currently have in my Christmas Books basket. I had to pull a bunch from our shelves before hubs packed all our books, but I didn’t get them all. I’m super bummed that a few of our must-haves are currently packed in the garage somewhere.

Christmas Books Basket:

1. Only a Star by Margery Facklam (Our newest addition and I LOVE IT!)
2. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Original Story by Robert L. May
3. Rudolph’s Second Christmas by Robert L. May
4. Origami for Christmas by Robyn Hardyman
5. The Story of Christmas: A Nativity Tale for Children by DK
6. Can You See What I See? The Night Before Christmas by Walter Wick
7. Snowballs by Lois Ehlert
8. Merry Christmas: Children at Christmastime Around the World by Satomi Ichikawa
9. The Story of Christmas for Children by Beverly Rae Wiersum
10. The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
11. Where are They? Christmas Fun: 1,000’s of Fun Things to Search & Find by Tony Tallarico
12. A Star for Jesus by Crystal Bowman
13. Corduroy’s Christmas by Lisa McCue
14. Stanley’s Christmas Adventure by Jeff Brown
15. Noel by Romeo Muller (A Little Golden Book)
16. The Story of the First Christmas by HarperCollins Publishers
17. My Book of Christmas Carols by Platt & Munk Publishers
18. My Christmas Stocking: Filled with God’s Love by Crystal Bowman
19. Christmas in Puddle Lane by Sheila McCullagh
20. The Secret of St. Nicholas by Ellen Nibali
21. Bounce, Tigger, Bounce by Isabel Gaines
22. The Magic School Bus: Arctic Adventure Scholastic Reader
23. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
24. Early Christmas (Early Settler Life Series) by Bobbie Kalman
25. Little Benjamin and the First Christmas by Betty Forell
26. The Puzzle Club: Christmas Mystery Adapted by Dandi Daley Mackall
27. The Night Before Christmas (A Little Golden Book)
28. The Biggest Snowman Ever by Steven Kroll
29. Merry Christmas Mom and Dad by Mercer Mayer
30. The Twelve Days of Christmas (A Little Golden Book)
31. Winnie the Pooh and the Christmas Tree (Disney)
32. The Littlest Christmas Elf (A Little Golden Book)
33. My Christmas Treasury (A Little Golden Book)
34. Mickey’s Christmas Carol (A Little Golden Book)
35. Christmas Around the World Coloring Book by Joan O’Brian (Dover)
36. T’was The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore
37. Donkey Daniel in Bethlehem by Janice Kramer
38. The Christmas Story (A Little Golden Book)
39. Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (A Little Golden Book)
40. The Story of Baby Jesus by Alice Joyce Davidson
41. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
42. Usborne The Story of Jesus
43. The Night Before Christmas (Scholastic)
44. Walt Disney’s Santa’s Toy Shop (A Little Golden Book)
45. A Song for Joseph: A Christmas Story for Children by Mervin A Marquardt
46. The Merry Christmas Mystery (Winnie the Pooh Golden Books)
47. Christmas in the Manger by Nola Buck
48. Snow Bugs by Susan Schade and Jon Buller
49. The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado
50. The Mitten by Jan Brett
51. The Tiny Star by Arthur Ginolfi

For a few years in a row, I did a unit on Christmas Around the World the week before Christmas Break! One year, I made a bulletin board with the word: PEACE in many languages!

And I have a whole stack of books about Christmas in other countries, but you’ll never guess what? They’re PACKED! I think that may have to be a post for another day! These are the two I did keep out:

I also love to keep some activity books in there so the kids can make things or do things together. They love the seek&find type books!

I have a TON of books on the true meaning of Christmas; these are just a few of my favorites!

Do you have any Christmas books you love? As you can see, I love ALL OF THEM!

~Jamie