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Nov. 19, 2006
Christmas Books, Movies, Music

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

 

Family Books:

A Family Christmas, Dr. James Dobson

Seeking the Christmas Lamb, Tamara J. Buchan

Mary, Did You Know? Mark Lowry

Come, Let Us Adore Him, Robert J. Morgan

What God Wants for Christmas by Family Life

Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories, L.M. Montgomery

Christmas Carols for A Kid’s Heart (comes w/cd)

 

 

CD’s, Audio books

A Christmas Carol: Focus on the Family Radio Theatre

Adventures in Odyssey: Christmas Classics

Christmas: The Message by Eugene H. Peterson (Mark Lowry reading)

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

The Life of Jesus :FotF Radio Theatre (previously called the Luke Reports)

Traveling Home for Christmas: FotF Radio Theatre

 

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

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Nov. 25, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Starlady


Wow! What a great list. I've never paid much attention to all of those lists on the boards! LOL We have our own big bucket of books that we read every year. I'll have to see if there are any in our bucket that you haven't listed. :D We'll be getting out all our Christmas stuff hopefully tomorrow.


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Nov. 30, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Leigharev2


Wow, this is great. I hope you don;t mind if I copy and post over to mine. I would love to work off of this.


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