Warning: They are not in any kind of order.

*The Very First Easter
*The Legend of the Easter Egg
*Benjamin's Box (Use with Resurrection Eggs)
*My Happy Easter Book
*The Legend of the Trees
*The Parable of the Lily
*He is Alive! by Helen Haidle
*Love One Another: The Last Days of Jesus retold by Lauren Thompson
*An Easter Carol by Cindy Kenney (Veggie Tales)
*The Easter Story Peek-a-Bible™ by Tracy Harrast
*The Legend of the Sand Dollar by Chris Auer
*Easter by Tracy Harrast
*Molly & the Good Shepherd by Chris Auer
*Mary and the Empty Tomb by Alice Joyce Davidson (board book)
*The Beginner's Bible® - Jesus Is Risen! (board book)
*Hosanna! by Miller Deboer (board book)
*Easter, Easter Almost Here! by Kathleen Long Bostrom (board book)
*My Day with Jesus by Alice Joyce Davidson (board book)
*My Good Shepherd by Alice Joyce Davidson (board book)
*Jesus Is Coming! by Jesslyn DeBoer (board book)
*Happy Easter! by Miller Deboer (board book)
*My Happy Easter Morning by Dandi Daley Mackall (board book)
*The First Easter by Jesslyn DeBoer (board book)
*Journey, Easter Journey w/ CD by
Dandi Daley Mackall, Gene Barretta
*Happy Day Books, Holiday: Let's Celebrate Jesus on Easter
*The Sparrow's Easter Song by Michelle Medlock Adams
*Journey to the Cross: The Complete Easter Story for Young Readers by Helen Haidle
*The Easterville Miracle by Melody Carlson
*That's Not All I Found in the City: An Easter Story for All Seasons by Sue Buchanan, Lynn Hodges
*Follow Me: Peter Lays Down His Net An Easter Story by Erik Rottmann
*The Resurrection Eggs: Miss Pattycake Opens Up the Wonder of the Easter Story by Jean Thomason, Nancy Gordon
*Little Colt's Palm Sunday by Michelle Medlock Adams
*Sunrise Hill An Easter Story of Faith, Inspiration, and Courage by Kathleen Long Bostrom
*Celebrate Jesus! At Easter by Kimberly Ingalls Reese
*Peter's First Easter by Walter Wangerin Jr.
*Easter Story by Brian Wildsmith
*The Thornbush by Michael Laughlin
*Bright Easter Day by Julie Stiegemeyer
*Happy Easter, God by Elspeth Campbell Murphy
*The Angels by Bob Hartman
*EasterJeremy: The Tale of an Honest Bunny by Jan Karon
*The Easter Cave by Carol Wedeven
*Why on This Night? A Passover Haggadah for Family Celebration by Rahel Musleah
*Mommy, Why Do We Have Easter? by Lou Yohe
*My First Story of Easter by Tim Dowley, Roger Langton
*Something Wonderful: The Easter Story by Carolyn Bergt
*Usborne Bible Stories: The Easter Story by Heather Amery
*Miracle in the Morning by Mary E. Erickson
*Jesus Lives! by Ronald Klug, Lyn Klug
*God's Love at Easter, Picture Book by
Joy Morgan Davis
*Where Is Jesus?: Easter by Mary Manz Simon
*The First Easter Bunny by Frrich Lewandowski
*Rise and Shine: The Story of Easter, Phonetic Bible Stories by Claudia Courtney
*Jesus is Risen by Rolf Krenzer
*Early Easter Morning by Marti Beuschlein
*Easter ABCs by Isabel Anders
*Sing Alleluia!: An Easter Story for Children By: Daphna Flegal
*Mary Magdalene's Easter Story Easter Arch Books
*One Morning In Josephs Garden by Barbara Younger
*J is for Jesus: An Easter Alphabet and Activity Book by Debbie Trafton O'Neal
*He is Risen: The Easter Story Adapted from the New Testament by Elizabeth Winthrop
*The Family Easter Book by Alan MacDonald
*Vinegar Boy by Alberta Hawse
*Titus: A Comrade of the Cross published by Lamplighter
MOVIES
*The Miracle Maker: The Story of Jesus
*The Jesus Movie: dvd has The Jesus Movie for children (Very Good...my children watched it over and over again)
*Miss Patty Cake's Egg-Strava-Ganza (preschool)
*The Easter Story Keepers
*The Proud Tree based on the book by Luane Roche
*He is Risen by Family Entertainment

Memorial Day Books:

Here is yet another list of books! 

•   First Night by Harriet Ziefert
• Goodbye Old Year, Hello New Year by Frank Modell
• Griselda's New Year by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
• Happy New Year! by Emery Bernhard
• Happy New Year by Emily Kelley
• Happy New Year, Everywhere! by Arlene Erlbach
• Just in time for New Year's! : a Harry & Emily adventure by Karen Gray Ruelle

• Miss Flora McFlimsey and the Baby New Year by Mariana

• New Year by Michele Spirn

• New Year's Day by Kathryn A. Imler

• New Year's Day by Mari C. Schuh

• New Year's Poems, selected by Myra Cohn Livingston, illustrated by Margot Tomes

• P. Bear's New Year's party : a counting book by Paul Owen Lewis

• Happy New Year Charlie Brown Video

• Know of anymore?  Post a comment and I will add it to the list!

Here is a list of Christmas books I have compiled using the Five In A Row message boards, library and CBD.com.  I have not read all of these, so please preread them to make sure it is acceptable for your family.  As far as I know, all of these books focus on Christmas being about Christ, not about Santa.

Blessings!

Children's Books

12 Bugs of Christmas by Max Lucado

A Bird’s Christmas Carol

A Christmas Promise, Lark Carrier

A Christmas Story, Brian Wildsmith

A Cowboy Christmas by Audrey Wood

A Currier and Ives Treasury

A Family Christmas Treasury, illustrated by Thomas Kinkade

A Glorious Angel Show: A Pop-Up Christmas Adventure, Dandi Daley

A Little House Christmas Treasury, Laura Ingalls Wilder

A Moon in my Teacup, Anita Riggio

A New Coat for Anna, Harriet Ziefert

A Shepherd’s Gift, Mary Calhoun+

A Stable in Bethlehem: A Christmas Counting Story, Joy Hulme

Alabaster’s Song, Max Lucado

All for the Newborn Baby, Phyllis Root

An Orange for Frankie, Patricia Polacco

An Ellis Island Christmas, Maxine Rhea Leighton

Angels and All Children: A Nativity Story in Words, Music and Art, Walter Wangerin, Jr

Annikas Secret Wish, Pamela Querin

Apple Tree Christmas, Trinka Hake

B is for Bethlehem, Noble

Baby Jesus Prince of Peace, Carol Greene+

Bethlehem Night, Julie Stiegemeyer

Bright Christmas:An Angel Remembers, Andrew Clements

Cat in the Manger, Michael Foreman

Christmas Angels, M.I. Hummel

Christmas Carols, a Little Golden Book

Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck

Christmas in the Stable, Beverly Duncan

Christmas Lullaby, Nancy Jewell

Christmas Tapestry, Patricia Polacco+

Christmas Trolls, Jan Brett

Christy: Christmastime at Cuttergap, Nancy LeSourd

Clopper the Christmas Donkey, Emily King

Come and See, Monica Mayper+

Counting to Christmas, Nancy Tafuri

Country Angel Christmas, Tomie dePaola (about Santa)

Cranberry Christmas

December

Diane Goode’s American Christmas+

Father Christmas and the Donkey, Elizabeth Clark

Follow that Star, Kenneth Opal

Gift of the Magi, Rovet Sauber

Gingerbread Baby, Jan Brett

Grandfather’s Christmas Tree, Thomas Locker

God Gave us Christmas, Lisa Tawn

Good King Wenceslas, verses by J. M. Neale

Good News of Great Joy, C. Michael Dudash

Hark! A Christmas Sampler by Jane Yolen and Tomie dePaola

I Spy Christmas, Walter Wick

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, Laura Numeroff

If You’re Missing Baby Jesus, Jean Gietzen

Jacob’s Gift, Max Lucado+

Josie’s Gift, Katy Bostrom

King of the Stable, Meloday Carlson

Little Angel, Geraldine McCaughrean

Little House in the Big Woods, Chapter 4, Laura Ingalls Wilder

Littlejim's Gift by Gloria Houston

Louisa May Alcott’s Christmas Treasury

Lucy and Tom’s Christmas, Shirley Hughes

Mary’s First Christmas, Walter Wangerin, Jr

Mary’s Happy Christmas Day, Kathleen Bostrom

Mary, The Mother of Jesus, Tomie dePaola

Mary’s Treasure Box, Carolyn Walz Kramlich

Memories of the Manger, Michelle Adams

Merry Creature Christmas, Dandi Daley

Mint’s Chrismas Message, Mary Spitz

Miracle in a Shoebox, Franklin, Graham

Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree

My First Story of Christmas, Tim Dowley

Night Tree, Eve Bunting

Nine Days to Christmas, Marie Hall Ets

O Christmas Tree, Debbie Trafton O’Neal

On Christmas Eve, Margaret Wise Brown

One Baby Jesus: A New 12 Days of Christmas, Patricia Pingry

One Small Lost Sheep, Claudia Mills

One Tiney Baby, Mark Taylor

One Wintry Night, Ruth Graham Bell

Over the River and Through the Wood, Lydia Maria Child

Papa Panov's Special Day, Ruben Saillens...adapted by Leo Tolstoy and retold by Mig Holder

Red Boots for Christmas, Carol Green

Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale, Martin Waddell

Saint Nicholas: The Real Story of the Christmas Legend, Julie Stiegemeyer

Santa, Are You For Real? (Book about St. Nicholas), Harold Myra

Silent Night, Joseph Mohr

Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story, Cynthia Rylant

Sleepy Jesus, Pennie Kidd

Sleigh Bells and Snowflakes, Linda Bronson

Stephen’s Feast, Jean Richardson

Stopping in the Woods on a Snowy Evening, Susan Jeffers

The Animals’ Christmas Carold, Helen Ward

The Animals’ Christmas Eve, Gale Wiersum+

The Baby Who Changed the World, Sheryl Crawford

The Best Christmas Hunt Ever, John Seirs

The Candle in the Window, Grace Johnson

The Candymaker’s Gift, David Haidle

The Children’s ABC Christmas, Patricia McKissack+

The Christmas Camel, Nancy Parker

The Christmas Cat, Efner Tudor Hoomes

The Christmas Day Kitten, James Herriot

The Christmas Garland, Lisa Flinn

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey+

The Christmas Lizard, Cory Edwards

The Christmas Promise, Susan Baroletti

The Christmas Quilt, Thomas Davis

The Christmas Ship, Daean Morrissey

The Christmas Star, Marcu Pfiister

The Christmas Story, Carol Heyer+

The Christmas Story, Jane Werner+

The Christmas Story with Ruth J. Morehead’s Holly Babes+

The Christmas Surprise, Allan Eitzen

The Clown of God, Tomie dePaola+

The Crippled Lamb, Max Lucado+

The Donkey’s Dream, Barbara Helen Berger

The Family Christmas Tree Book, Tomie dePaola

The First Christmas – A Festive Pop-up book, Tomie dePaola

The First Christmas According to Luke by Concordia Publishing House

The First Christmas Tree by Helen Haidle

The First Night, BG Hennessy+

The Fourth Wise Man, retold by Susan Summers

The Greatest Gift of All, Kimberly Rinehart

The Greatest Shepherd of All: A really Woolly Christmas Story

The Grumpy Shepherd, Paddie Devon

The Huron Carol, Jean de Brebeuf

The Legend of the Candy Cane by Lori Walburg

The Legend of the Christmas Tree, Rick Osborne

The Legend of the Christmas Rose, William Hicks

The Legend of the Christmas Stocking, Rick Osborne

The Legend of the Poinsetta, Tomie dePaola

The Legend of the Three Trees

The Light of Christmas, Richard Paul Evans

The Little Drummer Boy, Ezra Jack Keats

The Littlest Angel

The Littlest Christmas Tree, Janie Jasin

The Living Nativity: The Story of St. Francis and the Christmas Manger

The Long Winter, Chapter 18, Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Mitten, Jan Brett

The Night of the Child, Robert Benson

The Nutcracker+

The Perfect Present, Micheal Hague

The Pine Tree Parable, Liz Curtis Higgs

The Real 12 Days of Christmas, Helen Haidle

The Small One

The Stable Where Jesus Was Born, Rhonda Gowler Greene+

The Stable Rat and Other Christmas Poems, Julia Cunningham=

The Star of Christmas (Veggie Tales) Cindy Kenney

The Story of Christmas, Felix Hoffmann

The Story of Christmas, Jane Ray

The Story of Christmas, Vivian French+

The Story of Holly and Ivy, Rumer Godden

The Story of Little Christmas, George MacDonald

The Story of Saint Nicholas, Mildred Luckhardt

The Story of the Three Wise Kings, Tomie dePaola

The Tale of Three Trees, Angela Hunt

The Tiny Star, Arthur Ginolfi

The Town that Forgot About Christmas, Susan Leigh

The Tree That Came to Stay, Anna Quindlen

The Trees of Dancing Goats, Patricia Polacco+

The Twelve Days of Christmas, Jan Brett

 The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree, Gloria Houston

The Young Oxford Book of Christmas Poems, Michael Harrison

They Followed a Bright Star, Ulises Wensell

This is the Star, Joyce Dunbar

Thomas’ Christmas Delivery, Rev. W. Awdry

Too Many Tamales, Gary Soto+

Uncle Vova’s Tree, Patricia Polacco

We Three Kings, illus by Olga Zharkova

What Nick and Holly found in Grandpa’s Attic, Meloday Carlson

When it Snowed that Night, Norma Farber

Who is Coming to our House? Joseph Slate

Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome

Who Was Born this Special Day? Eve Bunting

Wombat Divine, Mem Fox

Woodland Christmas, Frances Tyrrell

Chapter Books for Older Children

The Christmas Doll, Elvira Woodruff

Miracles on maple Hill, Joe and Beth Krush

Treasures in the Snow, Patricia St. John

Big Susan (Purple House Press)

Christmas in Georgia, by Celestine Sibley

"The Quiet Little Woman" by Louisa May Alcott

Snowbound with Betsy by Carolyn Haywood

Merry Christmas from Betsy, Carolyn Haywood

The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden.

The Family Under the Bridge

The Cricket on the Hearth, Charles Dickens

The Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Chimes, Charles Dickens

Homecoming, Earl Hamners

Christmas with Anne, collection of Christmas stories from Anne of Green Gables

Letters from Father Christmas" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin

Movies:

12 Bugs of Christmas (Hermie)

A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Fruitcake Christams (Hermie and Friends)

Alabaster’s Song+

An Electric Christmas (Adventures in Odyssey)

Baby Faith: God Made Christmas

Christmas with Ozzie and Harriet

I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown

It’s A Wonderful Life

Jacob’s Gift+

Martin and the Heavenly Tree

My Christmas Soldier

Punchinello and the Most Marvelous Gift (Max Lucado)

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

The Christmas Shoes

The Christmas Storykeepers

The Crippled Lamb+

The First Christmas

The Gift: Kingdom Under the Sea+

The Legend of the Candy Cane

The Nativity (The Greatest Adventure Series by Hanna-Barbara)

The Star of Christmas (Veggie Tales)

The Story of the Nativiety (The Beginner’s Bible)

The Very First Noel by Exclaim Entertainment

The Walton’s (Christmas Movies)

Thomas’ Christmas Wonderland and Other Thomas Adventures

Music:

A Treasury of the Top 100 Christmas Songs for Kids

A Windham Hill Christmas

All I Really Want for Christmas, Steven Curtis Chapman

An Irish Christmas, Moya Brennan

Believe, Natalie Grant

Bethlehem:House of Bread, Annie Moses Band

Celebrating Christmas, Hillsong

Christmas Offerings, Third Day

Christmas Solitude, by Steve Sensenig

Christmas with the von Trapp Children

Christmas Worship, John Tesh

City on a Hill, Various Artists

George Frederick Handel’s Messiah, The Complete Work, The London Celebration Choir & Orchestra

Grown-Up Christmas List, Amy Grant

Happy Birthday Jesus, Twin Sisters

Humbug! Christmas Songs for the Scrooge in YOUR life!

Kids Tunz Christmas Carols, Volumes 1 and 2

Mary, Did You Know? Mark Lowry (as far as I know this is only available on a single)

Rose of Bethlehem, Selah

The Christmas Collection, Michael W. Smith

The Christmas Hope, NewSong

The Christmas Sessions, MercyMe

The Voice of Christmas, Sandy Patty

Veggie Tales’ Singing Christmas Tree

Winter Wonderland, Point of Grace

Women of Faith Christmas

Mommy Books!

The Red Gloves Collection by Karen Kingsbury

The Book of Hours, Davis Bunn

The Christmas Bus, Melody Carlson

Jacaican Me Crazy: A Christmas Escape by Debbie DiGiovanni

The Christmas Letters, Bret Nicholaus

The Christmas Hope, Donna VanLiere

I would eventually like to have a list of books for all the major holidays.  If you know of any other books, please feel free to add them in the comments and I will add it to my list!  The * tells me our library has it.  Look for more lists as we near other holidays!  If it has a +, it is in our personal library.  If you use this list to pick out books for your children, please preview it first as I have not seen or read most of these books.  If it is in bold print, I have read it and recommend it!