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XP: Favorite Holiday Kids' Books
I posted on the toddler boards but am not getting many responses.
So, anyone have any favorite holiday kids' books? I'm looking at Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas books so tell me what your kids' favorites are or what books you remember loving as a kid.
My big boy is bounding towards 3! Hoping to add a sibling.
Hipster dog is not impressed.
Hipster dog is not impressed.
Re: XP: Favorite Holiday Kids' Books
Twas the Night Before Christmas- make sure you read the actual book before buying because there are a lot of variations
Polar Express
Elf on a Shelf
Grich!!
My kids really love the cheesiest (but simplest) board books about the holidays. My mom buys them at Target around the holiday and they read them all year long!
SO many!! I haven't pulled out our Hallowen books yet so I don't recall them all off-hand (it's always fun to bring them out each year and see them again!).
A couple of our favorites are "Scary, Scary Halloween" (not scary, and has amzing illustrations) and "In the Haunted House"....both by Eve Bunting. a few others I can think of: "There Was An Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything", "By the Light of the Halloween Moon", "Where's My Mummy". For toddlers, both of my girls loved "Hallowen Jack" mostly b/c the eyes of the bat at the end light up and play music.
We have loads of Christmas books too. In addition to the ones listed above we like "Velveteen Rabbit", "The Night Before the Night Before Christmas" "Merry Un-Christmas", "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" (the one by J. Fred Coots has wonderful, lively illustrations), "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" (I love the Golden book version b/c it's the book version of the claymation series from the 70's). I absolutely love the version of "The Night Before Christmas"...it's so well illustrated with some glossy embossing that I don't even leave it in the kids' reach (only when I'm around)...I want it to last for our grandchildren! It's the traditional Clement C. Moore version, but look for the one with artwork by Tom Newsom. It's hard to find new copies for under $100 but a gently used copy can be found for a few dollars. And for toddlers, my girls loved (my 4 y/o still loves) "Jingle Bugs"....again, it has lights and music at the end. We've had to replace it twice over the years.
I'm sure to think of more. Will update if I do.
So Tasty, So Yummy
Llama Llama Holiday Drama (we love all of the Llama Llama books)
I have a 30 year old copy of The Bernestein Bears Spooky Old Tree that I can't wait to read to L this year. My mom read it to us and then when she was done, she'd pop in the cassette that came with the book so we could hear all the scary noises.
She also read us a book about going trick or treating - memorizing that story was actually how I learned to read - but that one we had pre-house fire (our house burned down when we were kids) and I've been looking on Amazon for it all afternoon.
If you're at all celebrating Christmas as a religious holiday the book "Tonight you are my baby" is beautiful. It's Mary telling Jesus how he's destined for other things but tonight you are my baby. When I read it to my old MDO class I kept tearing up and the kids looked at me like I was insane.
http://www.amazon.com/Tonight-You-Are-Baby-HarperBlessings/dp/B0046LUEIW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315866226&sr=8-1
For Halloween, Five little pumpkins was always a hit with the little crowd. My mom loved to read us the Ghost Eye Tree but I didn't care for it as a kid. Looking at it now it does have beautiful verse.
Spooky-
In a Dark Dark Room -
All of the Scary Stories books
Pretty much anything written or adapted by Alvin Schwartz. All of his books inspired my love of folk lore and anthropology.
Christmas- I love all of the Golden books for Christmas.
We are huge book lovers, and I'm a former elementary teacher so here goes...
(these are in addition to all the great recs above)
Halloween:
Froggy's Halloween
Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
The Berenstain Bears & the Haunted House (we actually have 2 or 3 Berenstain Bear Halloween books and they are all good)
The Night Before Halloween
and my personal favorite, The Hallo-Weiner! It is SO cute!
Thanksgiving:
A Plump & Perky Turkey
Thanksgiving Day at Our House
Turkey Trouble (very cute)
Christmas:
Olive, the Other Reindeer
Auntie Claus
Mooseltoe
Santa's Snow Cat
The Jolly Christmas Postman
The Twelve Dogs of Christmas
It's Christmas, David!
ANY Jan Brett books (the Night Before Christmas, Gingerbread Baby, The Mitten, Wild Christmas Reindeer) all SUCH beautiful illustrations
Religious: Little Drummer Boy, A Baby Born in Bethlehem, The Littlest Angel