Christmas Countdown Dec 3 - Children's Books

Now that I have a child who loves to read books with me and is excited about Christmas, it is fun to revisit children’s Christmas books through the eyes of my daughter. If you have kids and have not gotten them any Christmas books, most libraries have a great stash on hand and then you don’t have to have them all year round! We went to library story time this week and read “The Mitten” and Shayla decorated her own mitten to fill with animals! A great craft/story idea. A few of my favorite books from childhood that I am now reading to Shayla include:

Claude the Dog

Claude gives away all his Christmas presents to his down-and-out friend, Bummer, but receives an even better present from his young master.

Baboushka and the Three Kings

My mom was really into Baboushka (Polish thing too). This story is an old folktale about an old woman's endless search for the Christ child.Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree

Ages 3-7. First published in 1963, he unchanged, rhyming text tells the tale of a Christmas tree too tall for Mr. Willowby's parlor. The butler whomps off the top and gives it to the maid, who finds even the treetop too tall for her table. So she chops off the top of her little tree, which is retrieved by the gardener--and so on. In the end, the one tall tree has provided smaller Christmas trees for seven homes, from Mr. Willowby's mansion, where Mr. Willowby dozes contentedly in his parlor, to the cozy mouse hole behind Mr. Willowby's chair, where three little mice dance around their tiny tree. Simple, satisfying, and memorable, this old favorite's colorful reappearance gives readers yet another reason to celebrate the season.