This year I decided to acquire and wrap 24 books about Christmas for my little men. Each night they get to unwrap one and we read it for our bedtime story. We are only a few days into the month but this has been so much fun.
Here are the books we are doing and I will try to update as often as I can and let you know what we thought of the books!
1. The Crippled Lamb
2. Mortimer's Christmas Manger
3. Santa's Favorite Story
4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
5. The Nightmare Before Christmas
6. Olive the Other Reindeer
7. The Polar Express
8. The Tale of Three Trees
9. God Gave Us Christmas
10. The Night Before Christmas
11. J is for Jesus (When we read this book my five year old pointed out that it is ridiculous to put a baby in a manger full of hay. Especially since babies are bald all over and hay is itchy and pokey. But, besides the downsides of hay, this book is adorable, geared toward a younger audience and catchy rhymy version of the gospel story.)
12. Humphrey's First Christmas
13. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathon Toomey
14. The Pirate's Night Before Christmas (This book is absolutely hilarious. It is short and super cute. We read it three times the night we unwrapped it and I can say with all sincerity that I enjoyed it as much as my children did. It even has a pirate glossary in the end to translate all the pirate words. Definitely worth owning because it is one you could read over and over again.)
15. The Gift of the Magi (This is unquiestionably my favorite Christmas story, other than the Biblical account of Christ's birth of course. We read it every year, I never make it through without tearing up. It is a beautiful story of self sacrificing love. Because it was written quite a while ago you can get the full text of this short story on the internet. I would recommend reading this to your children even if you don't buy the book!)
16. The Nutcracker (This one is a classic but this version doesn't include much on all of the special trips that the little girl takes with the nutcracker. I honestly don't know enough about the original story to know whether those were just added in the ballet or whether they were edited to make the story shorter, either way, they are my favorite part but this was still a good book, especially for my 8 year old. The five year old lost interest in a few parts.)
17. Angela and the Baby Jesus
18. Only a Star
19. A Charlie Brown Christmas
20. Mary's First Christmas
21. The Wild Christmas Reindeer
22. The Lightlings
23. Who is that Knocking on Christmas Eve
24. Queen of Christmas
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