After New Year’s, the books get packed away in the attic, so they really only see these during December.

I’ll wrap them Tuesday or Wednesday while they are at school, and get them all arranged in their special basket in the living room.  I can’t wait!

Here is Michele’s book list:

1) Santa’s Reindeer – Rod Green (one of my favorites.  Long!)
2) Voices of Christmas – Nikki Grimes (the Nativity as told from different viewpoints – the Innkeeper, Herod, etc)
3) Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer (MY Little Golden Book from when I was little.)
4) How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
5) Henry and Mudge and a Very Merry Christmas – Cynthia Rylant
6) The Nativity – Six Glorious Pop Up Scenes – Francesca Crespi
7) A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (picture book format, illustrated by Brett Helquist)
8) The Bears Christmas – Stan and Jan Berenstain
9) Christmas Day in the Morning – Pearl S. Buck (another favorite, but a bit sad.)
10) The Nutcracker – photographed and told by Joel Meyerowitz  With CD of the Philharmonic Orchestra.  (I’d like to ditch this one – it’s super long, but Sophie’s favorite, sigh.)
11) An Orange for Frankie – Patricia Polacco (love this one – great sibling story.)
12) Winter’s Gift – Jane Monroe Donovan
13) Sleds on Boston Common – a Story from the American Revolution (not really a Christmas book but set right before Christmas.  Zach used to be an Am Rev buff.)
14) Snowmen at Christmas – Carolyn Buehner
15) Who is Coming to Our House – Joseph Slate
16) Christmas Farm – Mary Lyn Ray (a boy and his elderly neighbor start a tree farm.)
17) The Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear – Stan and Jan Berenstain
18) Polly’s Christmas Present  - Wonder Books (another old, yellowed one of mine.)
19) The Nutcracker – a Magical Pop-up Adventure – Nick Denchfield
20) Christmas in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder
21) Angela and the Baby Jesus – Frank McCourt
22) B is for Bethlehem – Isabel Wilner
23) The Night Before Christmas – Clement Moore, the version with a CD by Peter Paul and Mary (new for us this year so the kids haven’t seen it yet.)
24) These 3 are baby books that the kids don’t want to get rid of.  They’re wrapped together as one.
The Christmas Baby – Jenny Press
Baby’s First Nativity  - Reader’s Digest Children’s Books
This is the Stable – Cynthia Cotten