What is your favorite book that takes place during the Christmas holiday?
What is your favorite book that takes place during the Christmas holiday?
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What is your favorite book that takes place during the Christmas holiday?
A Christmas Carol
Me too
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
The 24 days before Christmas by Madeleine L’Engle and The Christmas pearl
Wait, what? A Madeline L’Engle Christmas book? I must read this!
@Lorra it’s about the Austin’s, one of my all time favorite families!
A Christmas Carol tops the list. Then, I’d have to say a more recent one – Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
I just discovered this one this past Christmas, what fun
I was going to say The Stupidest Angel but you beat me! Love Christopher Moore!
I’ve picked this up several times and can’t seem to get into it. Maybe I’ll give it another try.
Christmas Carol.
The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper by Jean Van Leeuwen. Have loved it since I was in grade school.
The best Christmas pageant ever! Got to love those Herdmans!
Christmas Carol
Redbird Christmas
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg.
Mr. Ives’ Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson.
Love this book!!!
A Christmas Carol, followed by A Child’s Christmas in Wales (more like a pamphlet ?)
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
This is a lovely story.
The Christmas Sweater
Christopher Moore’s The Stupidest Angel!!!
Polar Express (but NOT the movie) and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Skipping Christmas
Loved the book, hated the movie.
Agree
A Child’s Christmas in Wales
Love this and the short movie version.
@Peggy I show it to my students every year!
@Nina, I’m a retired English teacher, but I showed that one and A Child’s Christmas in Wales every year!
Not a book but a short story length memory: A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote.
The Melodeon by Glendon Swarthout
The Birds’ Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggen
I have a few: Polar Express, Christmas Carol, Christmas Sweater and books by Richard Paul Evans or Debbie Macomber
I was going to say all Christmas books, but there are some doozies out there. I’d have to say A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas…
Of course
Santa’s Twin
Dicken’s Christmas Carol
The Gift of the Magi
A Christmas Carol.
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
I love love love this book. I read it every year. I want to know Elfrida!
Me too! Now, thinking about it, I want to read it again now! Not sure I can wait until the Solstice. LOL!
@Sandi
Me too!
The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank. I read it every Christmas. (And I’ve given it as gift so many times!!)
AndTge Polar Express!
A Christmas Carol
The Polar Express. Bought it for my kids the year it came out, and now I make sure my grandchildren have it.
A Red Bird Christmas and Skipping Christmas
Lit tle Women – and I read one when I was little – the lion in the box – by Marguerite de Angela – anyone else ever read that? I loved it so much!
“A Child’s Christmas in Wales” Dylan Thomas
A Christmas Memory by Capote. You’ll feel it in your soul
A Christmas Carol
My mom always loved The Little Matchbox Girl, but I thought it was too sad.
I dont like this book either!
I can’t watch the Disney short without crying.
That one gave me nightmares
Little Women
This ☝️☝️
Little Women
Tis the Season by Lorna Landvick
For a really scary psychological tale, try Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw.
Following. Great suggestions!!
I’m going to have to remember these suggestions in a couple of months.
The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Amory.
Harry Potter
I remember the movies would also come out during the holidays and now I always have an HP movie marathon when it’s Christmas time ?
Yes, I second this ❤️
And I had to pick the cover from my childhood…
The orginal cover !❤️
A Christmas Carol
Christmas @Carol
Jacob T. Marley or Christmas Is Murder, a Rex Graves Mystery.
Polar Express
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
I read it for the first time last year and decided it needed to be a new Christmas tradition.
A Christmas Carol or The Grinch.
Little Women (starts at Christmas at least!)
That’s too funny. Little Men ends at Christmas.
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris is irreverent and hilarious.
YES!!
My mother and I take turns reading it aloud every year! “Santaland Diaries” is perfect.
Sedaris and I went to the same college.
David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice
Awesome story
Christmas Carol
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol -Charles Dickens.
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
Christmas Carol
The Christmas Box
The book for “Rent”
“It’s Christmas Eve 9pm!!”
A Christmas Carol, Silver Bells, The Christmas Train.
And Skipping Christmas.
I like reading Heidi at Christmas.
The Melodeon by Glendon Swarthourt (also published as A Christmas Gift).
I read and watch The Best Christmas Pageant Ever each holiday season.
A CHRISTMAS MEMORY, by Truman Capote
Can’t let a Christmas go by without the Christmas Carol and Gift of the Magi.
Shepherd’s Abiding
A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree-I’d cry at a certain spot each year when reading it to my students. Of course, they didn’t understand. 🙂
A CHRISTMAS STORY, by Jean Shepherd.
Silver Spurs
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Me too!
Christmas Carol
Landline by Rainbow Rowell!
Little Women
Lost December. Richard Paul Evans. Most of his books take place around Christmas and are awesome quick reads!
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
The Worst (Best) Christmas Pageant Ever
Connie Willis “All Seated on the Ground”
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci -but only the audio version.
Yes! I listen to this every Christmas!
Polar Express
Love that one too
A Christmas Carol…
The House without a Christmas Tree is one we had growing up…I wonder if it’s still in print.
Loved this and have such a strong memory of the TV film adaptation they did of it.
Christmas Carol dickens cricket on the hearth dickens
Love this one!!
@Desiree that last page is everything, right??
YES! My husband loves Breathed’s comics so one Christmas I saw the book and bought it for him (not much of a reader) we read it every Christmas now.
Desiree Ansell Bengson I also love him! Opus and Bill the cat are my favorite!
@Carol we have all the books and quite a few stuffed animals!
Have you seen the cartoon, A Wish for Wings That Work?
No, I have not! I will look it up, thanks.
I have this one! It’s very sweet! I also have Mars Needs Moms.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
“Christmas Carol” and “Skipping Christmas” by John Grisham.
The Christmas Day Kitten, by James Herriot. My kids loved it.
It was Mr. Willoughby’s Christmas Tree when I was growing up. I still have that book!
A Midnight Clear, by William Wharton
A Christmas Carol
I loved this book when I was a kid. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds%27_Christmas_Carol
Chapter 26 – Christmas – in the book Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
I also love the observed Christmas in “The Long Winter” when their Christmas barrel comes in May !!
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
I LOVED THAT as a kid! I wish they would have made a movie of it
@Allison there was a TV program with Loretta Swit
Really?
@Allison Yes, about 20 yrs ago, or so.
I’ll have to look it up
@Allison tv movie 1983
Thanks @Kathy
@Kathy It was a tv movie.
The Other Wise Man a story by Henry van Duke.
Also, this was hysterical!!
Read it this summer and loved it. I plan on suggesting it to my book club as our Christmas selection.
One of my favorites The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. It’s #2 in the series and takes place at Christmas.
One of my favorites.
A Christmas Gift by Glendon Swarthout. I would love to know if anyone else has read this.
Little Women
The Bridge
Dylan Thomas, A Child’s Christmas in Wales.
I have read that every Christmas since I was a child.
O. Henry’s short story, Gift of the Magi
#1. The Littlest Angel. Followed by The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
Omigosh. I just remembered! In 5th grade I was is a Verse Choir. It was like Reader’s Theater. ? We did The Littlest Angel! It was so touching…especially the part about the box containing things that boys like–a collar from a dog, etc.
@Charla that dog collar always makes me cry ? Great story.
@Alice Me, too. I start to tear up just thinking about it.!
Christmas Carol, Night before Christmas
Skipping Christmas, John Grisham
Little Women, Skipping Christmas (made into the movie ‘Christmas with the Kranks. The book was WAY better) A Christmas Carol
Red Bird Christmas
Love this!
I just added that book
Miracle in 34th Streer and Christmas Carol
Dickens’s The Christmas Carol
Dickens always evokes Christmas for me. I secretly want dirty snow laden alleys behind the tailor who is next to the pub, who is next to the…
Jennifer Snow’s Maybe This Christmas (part of a larger series). Full disclosure: I was the copyeditor for this series, but I would recommend it even if I had nothing to do with it.
A Christmas carol
Holidays on Ice is hilarious.
A Christmas Carol
Gift of the Magi
The Christmas Jars.
Winter Solstice
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Skipping Christmas. Hysterical.
Me too!
I love Christmas books! Top favorites are; Skipping Christmas, Christmas Jars, The 13th Day of Christmas, That Thine As be Done in Secret, Little Rllie Clause, and almost all of Richard Paul Evans Christmas books.
Becky’s Christmas by Tasha Tudor
Little Women (parts of it anyway!)
This for sure.
The Worst Noel
Mrs mircle
The christmas shoes series
The christmas box
A Christmas Memory
Christmas Carol by Dickens,of course
A Christmas Carol by Dickens
The Hogfather by Terry Prachett, TECHNICALLY does not take place during Christmas because it’s on another planet.
Terry Pratchett is purely wonderful; but, I haven’t read this one! Thanks!
There’s a movie of it too, Michelle Dockery from Downton Abbey plays Susan, Death’s granddaughter. It’s a holiday tradition in my home.
A Christmas Carol
The stupidest angel by Christopher Moore.
Another of my favorites!! ??
A Christmas Carol.
The autobiography of Santa Claus
Red Bird Christmas
I just added that book
The Christmas Box
I don’t have a favorite book for the season, but my favorite story is The Valveteen Rabbit. I recently heard an audio version by Meryl Streep and it was lovely. ❤️
I know that must be! How wonderful!
@Lanelle it’s on YouTube!
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Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin’ and Hopin’—an unforgettable novella that captures the warmth and joy of the holiday season. Poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story and David Sedaris’s The Santaland Diaries, Lamb’s Christmas tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello—a distant cousin of the iconic Annette!
Review
“In the hands of Wally Lamb, what emerges isn’t an apology but a celebration of life…Felix makes a hilarious guide through a story that whirs right along.” (Washington Post)
“Lamb’s rich panoply of details…render this novel first-rate escapism just begging for a comforter and a cup of tea.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
“Warmly, sweetly retro” (Kansas City Star)
“Lamb gets Felix’s voice just right, and he does a spot-on job of evoking the special joys and trials of parochial school in the ‘60’s” (St. Petersburg Times)
“Lamb’s vividly detailed portrait of the 1960’s and the inner workings of a Catholic schoolboy’s mind puts his first Christmas book on par with his previous three novels.” (Miami Herald)
“Lamb…proves he can be short, sweet and funny” (USA Today)
“Wishin’ and Hopin’ from Wally Lamb reminds us of what innocence was like.” (Body and Soul)
“Both heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny…a cast of characters that are both uproarious and unforgettable…a poignant reminder that family and friends are the greatest gift of all.” (Hartford Books Examiner)
We might as well call Wally Lamb the man with the golden pen…[Wishin’ and Hopin’] will leave you laughing and thinking nostalgically about your own school days and holidays past” (BookPage)
“Lamb is a very good writer, and Wishin’ and Hopin’ is a charming read with a genuinely funny ending.” (Houston Chronicle)
From the Back Cover
With his latest story, WISHIN′ AND HOPIN′, Wally Lamb takes a turn toward the lighthearted and laugh-provoking. In a vein similar to Jean Shepherd′s A Christmas Story and David Sedaris′s The Santaland Diaries, Lamb′s holiday tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello–a distant cousin of the iconic Annette! Both poignant and hilarious, WISHIN′ AND HOPIN′ transports us back to October, November, and December of 1964, when LBJ and Lady Bird were in the White House, Meet the Beatles was on everyone′s turntables, and Christmas meant mistletoe, mangers, and midnight mass. Then it propels us from the past to the present so that we might measure what we′ve gained and what we′ve lost.
About the Author
Wally Lamb is the author of five New York Times bestselling novels: She’s Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishin’ and Hopin’, and We Are Water. His first two works of fiction, She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were both #1 New York Times bestsellers and
selections of Oprah’s Book Club. Lamb edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Connecticut, where he has been a volunteer facilitator for seventeen years.
Loved the Felix Funicello book!!
@Liz Me too, who knew Annette had a cousin! Wally Lamb is a hoot & a great author!
The Christmas Candle by Max Lucado
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper.
Santaland Diaries
Skipping Christmas
Krampus
Little Women
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Me, too!
Christmas Story and A Christmas Story.
Little Women, Holidays On Ice.
Two completely different books!
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Red Bird Christmaz
A Christmas Carol
The Gift of the Magi
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol. Read it every year. It’s a beautiful story of redemption, without a religious focus. Restores my faith in humanity.
The last Noel by Michael Malone.
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
A Child’s Christmas in Wales.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. ? I love that book!!
I love that one too!
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
The story of the Other Wiseman
https://www.amazon.com/story-other-Henry-illustrated-McCrea/dp/B007GADN0Q/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1535949002&sr=8-11&keywords=the+other+wise+man
Polar Express…
Holly Claus
Wishin’ and Hopin’ by Wally Lamb
Polar Express
A Redbird Christmas
Holidays on Ice.
Yes!!
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski.
It is small book, THE REINDEER KEEPER.
Mr. Willybee’s Christmas Tree
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson.
Classic Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol.
Pilgrims Inn, Elizabeth Goudge ❤️
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
Very cliche, but every year I reread The Christmas Carol and Cricket on the Hearth, Christmas Eve read The Night Before Christmas and Christmas morning read Luke chap 2.
I reread The Christmas Carol on Christmas eve every year. I’ve been doing it for decades
A Christmas Carol
Wishin’ and Hopin’ by Wally Lamb.
The Christmas Cookie Club
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
A Christmas Carol.
The Elin hilderbrand ‘winter’ series
The beginning of Little Women.
I agree!!
A Christmas Carol by Dickens. I re-read it almost every year.
I not only read it, I am constantly looking for film versions I haven’t seen
@Bonnie Do you have a favorite? Ours is Scrooge with Alistair Sim from 1951. For “off the wall” I like Scrooged with Bill Murray.
@Barbara Alistair Sim’s reclamation is best but I also am fond of Reginald Owen & Patrick Stewart has grown on me as has George C Scott. I do not discount The Muppets or Mr Magoo. Basically, I love them all, as you can tell. ???
@Bonnie Yes. Reginald Owen would be on my short list too! 🙂 Honestly — I’m with you — I pretty much do love them all !
Skipping Christmas
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
This book makes me cry whenever I read it.
Love this book! I read it every year and fall in love with those two wonderful characters again and again.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The House Without a Christmas Tree.
A ChrIstmas Carol.
Wishin and Hopin by Wally Lamb and
Elin Hilderbrand’s Winter Street Series
The christmas shoes
The Christmas Box
Skipping Christmas
Well !!!! The greatest thing I ever read was ” Esther’s Gift ” from one of the Mitford books. They fall just short of being too sentimental but this one is a gem !! Very funny , too , for ” old- – marrieds ” ha ha . I read this one aloud to Mister B while he is cutting garlic in the kitchen. Afraid my voice breaks at the end !!! Am such a softie !! But , plus !! You get a recipe for some thing SO divine yo daren’t not make it but once a year !! SO, you get two for one !!
Shepherd’s Abiding
I enjoyed Ann Perry’s A Christmas Message even though the message is different than A Christmas Carol.
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
I don’t believe I’ve read one except A Christmas Carol
Lost December by Richard Paul Evans
A Christmas Carol
I read Twas the Night Before Christmas every year to my kids and now grandkids. I buy any book I see if it. I know it’s really a poem but I love it.
Christmas in Georgia
The Christmas Box.
This may sound crazy but we really enjoy a book of short stories called Murder for Christmas. All stories by classic authors.
Oooo, I didn’t even know about this one; I’ll have to check it out!
A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth.
Little Women
Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory
????????
Yesssssss!
The Bridge
A Childs Christmas in Wales
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Little women
The Bird’s Christmas Carol.
Gift of the Magi
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
Love John Grisham
Mine is the “Christmas Box” Richard Paul Evans
Christmas Carol
Christmas with Ida Early.
A Christmas Carol
The Best Christmas Padgent Ever Melts my ?
Christmas With The Kranks
A Christmas Carol
Christmas Shoes
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
I liked The Christmas Sweater
The Homecoming – Earl Hamner jr
The nutcracker, Christmas carol, the great Christmas knit off and I always associate little women with Christmas.
A Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Carol
The Santa Land Diaries by David Sedaris and A Christmas Story by Jean Sheppard. Both are fantastic. 🙂
A Christmas Memory
A Christmas Carol
Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree
Bought this when my kids were little. 25 years ago? We read it still every Christmas
A Christmas Carol.
Miracle on 34th Street, Christmas Carol,and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
A Child’s Christmas in Wales
The Polar Express.
The Polar Express
Krampus by Brom
The Polar Express and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Both a must for children.
Gift of the Magi.
Holidays on ice. David Sedaris
A Christmas @Carol..
‘‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper.
A Christmas Carol. I read it every Christmas ?
A Christmas Carol
The Little Mixer by Lillian @Leslie
Every Christmas Eve we read A Visit from Saint Nicholas, the Nativity Story, The Friendly Beasts, and a few others. We are in our 4th generation of this tradition.
Howard’s end
The Gift of the Maji. and How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
Little Women
The original Rudolph the red nose reindeer.
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Trip To The North Pole by Ellen.Weiss
A Christmas Story
The Christmas Box
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara @Robinson
The Fox at the Manger. The Story of Silent Night.
The Christmas Shoes
I have several books I always read at Christmas. Christmas Gift! by Ferrol Sams, The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston, and Angel Doll by Jerry Bledsoe and Tim Rickard. All put me in the Christmas spirit.
Love Christmas Gift! Love Ferrol Sam’s books.
Yes, all of his are wonderful.
A child’s Christmas in Wales
The Gift of the Maji
The Family Under the Bridge
I used that book for a group of 5th grade students just last year and I’ll tell you we got into some deep discussions about judging people. Love that book!
Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol.’
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. I didn’t know he could be so funny.
The Gift of the Magi and Little Women
THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. AND. A BOOK OUR ORINCIPAL READ US IN SICTH GRADE CALLED CHRISTMAS CAROL. NO SINULARITY BETWEEN TWO TITLES.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
The christmas shoes
The Gift of the Magi
The Polar Express
Nuts, forgot about those. And I have given so many copies away as gifts. Duh!
A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
A Cup of Christmas Tea
Oh yes. That one too!
The Gift of the Magi
I loved Mr.Dickens and his Carol
Yes I really really enjoyed this one!!!!
The Autobiography of Santa Claus.
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
A Christmas Carol
Searching for David’s heart
I like Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory very much.
I like that one, too.
A Christmas Carol, though that’s not a book.
It is a novella
The Giver
The Christmas Box.
A Christmas Carol
Kringle
Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Christmas Carol, the ultimate Christmas story
Little Women….. enough Christmas scenes for me… sharing with the poor immigrant family….. the gift of the piano
TheHomecoming by Earl Hamner. The television show The Waltons was based on it.
What a great reminder. Had forgotten how wonderful this was.
The Christmas Bells
Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy by Debbie McComber. (Names of the three angels) funny and heartwarming
I’ve heard that her books are pretty good
@Lydia, they are. She has numerous Christmas themed books, some made into movies.
The Christmas Box
Wishin’ and Hopin’ by Wally Lamb. Hilarious !
Following
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
LITTLE WOMEN
I was thinking the same!
Best Christmas Pageant Ever
A Christmas Cup of Tea
Harry Potter
The Christmas Box
Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flag . It’s a sweet little book.
Polar express
A Christmas Carol
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Blue Christmas, Mary Kay Andrews
The Stupidest Angel.
A Certain Small Shepherd by Pearl Buck
A Christmas Carol. I have to read it every Christmas.
I have too.
Love the cat, Jane.
Thanks! That’s Huey. He was the greatest cat. He died in October. Miss him so much!
Same here. I read it and “Skipping Christmas” by John Gresham
Remember this so clearly. I almost sent it to my son. He took all four of the kids on a cruise over the holidays. The kids hated it. We were so sad to miss Christmas with them. Didnt send him the book, but sure felt like it.
I love Patricia Polacco’s books. The Trees of the Dancing Goats” is a beautiful story about both Christmas and Hanukkah.”
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-trees-of-the-dancing-goats-patricia-polacco/1001208968
Balducci THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN
Ok. I am completely overwhelmed by all these amazing suggestions. They all sound wonderful. I have read many, but very far from even most of them. I have two granddaughters, one 4 and one almost 7. The elder one reads at a 5th grade level. Are there any Christmas books you would recommend for her especially any she could read to her 4 year old sister?
The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper should be the right reading level and is a great story about mice saving the Macy’s Santa after he is kidnapped.
Me Willoughbys Christmas Tree!
The Polar Express
The Snowman’s Christmas Present is one I loved, my son loved and my grandkids loved. I had to buy it on EBay as it’s out of print. If you don’t want a pre-owned book, there is a book version of The Snowman and the video is gorgeous. Check out The Family Under the Bridge.
The Christmas Tree
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree is a lovely Appalachian take which would be wonderful for your granddaughters.
The Christmas Train!
None
The Winter Street series by Elin Hilderbrand
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Never too old to love these books!
Look for a copy of the children’s titlt, THE NATIVITY by Julie Vivas. The editions Ican find now have three sngels looking over the nanger at the baby Jesus. The best one, the edition before has a reddish orange cover with a VERY pregnant Mary sitting on the donkey’s back, being led by Joseph, obviously on their way to.pay their taxes. I think i have bought every existing copy of this book for gifts. But if you can find this first edition, I would recommend you read it. You know the story, obviously. Butvthe illustrations that accompany the story arecwhat makes this such a nagnificent Christmas read. I pick it up often on the off season, just to reenjoy these illustrations with the story. People must have gotten the drift of this book’s eorth because second hand copies now sell for about $35. Mine, new, was $10.95. Find a library that still has a copy and have a delightful nativity experience. My money says you will not regret the search. You might even want one bad enough to spend the #35 for a personal copy. Sorry I kept buying all the Amazon copies for gifts. Happy hunting.
@Judy Thanks for sharing!
Christmas Carol and I do watch Little Women as a Christmas movie
Hogfather
‘A Christmas Carol’
‘A Christmas Carol’ without hesitation
Are there any other than a Christmas Carol? LOL! Of course that one is my favorite.
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham and A Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor.
Dylan Thomas, Christmas in Wales.
I love the Winter series by Elin Hildebrand 🙂
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote (hands down!)
It’s a close second the The Gift of the Magi ?
The best Christmas pageant ever
A Christmas Carol
The Little Match Girl
The ChristmasBox
Skipping Christmas by Grisham. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote. A Child’s Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas. And The Worst Christmas Pageant Ever!
Also like Maeve Binchy Christmas short stories. “This year will be Different”
@Kris my first Christmas book and my favorite. I often give it as a pre Christmas gift.
A Christmas @Carol
The Christmas Train
BETSY’S LITTLE STAR by Carolyn Haywood always warms my heart.
Carolyn Haywood❤️❤️❤️❤️
Love her!!!!
I’m currently reading a Carolyn Haywood book to my 5 year old granddaughter. She loves the story and illustrations.
The chapter about the Christmas tree in “The Peterkin Papers” by Lucretia Hale.
The stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Loved that. His books are always LOL funny. Have you read Lamb?
@Ann I loved Lamb, made me smile from the first few pages. I tell people all the time to read Lamb.
I used to hand out copies.
Not only is Lamb his finest novel, not only is Lamb hilarious, but it has a number of serious, thought-provoking, philosophical moments. There is one passage in particular that makes me tear up every time I think of it.
A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas.
I loved the old movie. Should add to my list this year. Thanks for reminding me.
Hilarious book!
The Academy Street Theatre Group, an arts education program of the Cherokee County School District in Canton, GA., has presented this as a play each year since 1992, this is year 26! A beloved Christmas tradition for everyone!
@Janice That’s fabulous!! I’ve always wanted to see a live performance of this story ?
A Christmas Carol and Little House on the Prairie.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas. The Gift of the Magi,
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever