Favorite Kids Christmas Books

If you are looking for some ideas for some of the best kids Christmas books, then you are looking in the right place.

We love Christmas books (OK we love books in general!) but we love the Christmas ones especially because they only get seen for a short time each year. I usually keep them in storage the rest of the year so that they are extra special when they come out around the end of November. We usually keep them in a basket by a good reading chair in the living room so that we make sure to share and enjoy them together. On to the books!

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Christmas Nativity themed books:

The First Christmas is a nice pop-up story about the Nativity and the bottom one is a “changing picture book” so both are a bit interactive.

I couldn’t find either of the First Christmas books on Amazon but here is an alternative:

Room For a Little One and A Child was Born, I actually ordered through book orders from the kids’ school and Room is my absolute favorite. I just love the gorgeous illustrations and it is such a sweet story. My kids love it, as the story is told more from the point of view of all the animals in the stable and they love searching for the little mouse 🙂

Santa Christmas Books:

The kids received “I Believe in Santa Claus” last year for Christmas and though it looks boring it is a really great story about the similarities between Santa and Jesus.

Another favorite is “Santa’s Magic Key”. This is extra special because we got it from my Grandma, who has since passed away and because she was friends with the author, who gave her a signed copy 🙂 This is a fantastic story and has really helped me answer Gabe’s question of how Santa gets in the houses of people without fireplaces (we don’t have a fireplace anymore). As soon as he asked I pulled out all the Christmas books to find this one 🙂

Anyways, the other two are fun, “It’s Santa!” is a “lift the flap” one, and “My Christmas Treasury” is filled with a bunch of different stories including ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.

Snowman Books:

I guess they aren’t necessarily Christmas books (well The Annual Snowman’s Ball and Snow What Fun are) But I like to include them in the mix 🙂 We got these from various places, most were gifts though. The kids love Snow Bear, as all the pictures of the bear are fuzzy! (Both are especially great for ages 2-8)

More Christmas Books:

Since we’re Canadian, we had to get “A Porcupine in a Pine tree” ! We got this one last year as well I think (I’m just realizing we got a lot of books last Christmas!) and we really enjoy this fun Canadian adaptation of the classic Christmas carol, The twelve days of Christmas. Some highlights from the book include Eight mounties munching, Five Stanley Cups, Four calling moose….:) it’s a lot of fun.

Then we have “I Spy a Candy Cane” ~ my kids love “I Spy” books and this one is for the 6 and under crowd. I’d love to get the bigger one as the kids are all getting bigger.

And next is Teddy’s First Christmas which I think Gabe is the only one who reads that one anymore (edited: Gabe is now 13 and doesn’t read it anymore but we keep it around for our little nephew 😉

Mortimer’s Christmas Manger is a cute story and then we have the famous “The Elf on the Shelf” .

Snoodle (that’s our elf’s name 🙂 has been kicking around here since Dec. 1st although he might have gotten lazy once or twice and stayed in one spot for a few days 😉 This is a fun tradition with kids especially if you start it when they are really young and your elf isn’t lazy (or forgetful!) like ours is sometimes 🙂

And last but not least, we have “The Christmas Hat” and ” Disney’s Christmas Story Book“.

Favorite Kids Christmas Books The Christmas hat and Disney's Christmas Storybook

I left these for last because they have been around the longest :). Our eldest daughter, Nyla, got these Christmas books from Pat and me when she was a baby and they are enduring favorites. They are well-used and slightly abused as seen by the damaged spine, from one too many drops from little hands. They are both good books though and The Christmas Hat is fun because the pages are all embossed so they feel textural and raised on your fingertips.

Christmas Books with a broken spine — Oops!

The Christmas Hat Book — Such sweet beautiful illustrations.

Well, I hope you enjoyed seeing our favorite kids’ Christmas books, if you want more ideas for Christmas books you can check out Memories on Clover Lane blog or The Sunny Side Up blog which are two places I have gotten ideas from in the past.

Most of the books found on my list can be found either on Amazon or Chapters, a lot of them were gifts and some were ordered from Scholastic through our kid’s schools.
Have a great day!

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