Looking for the best Christmas books for kids? From board books to picture books, faith-based to just-for-fun, here are some of our family’s favorites!
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Over the years, our family has developed a few cherished Christmas traditions: going through our Unwrapping the Names of Jesus Advent devotional together in the preceding weeks, watching a Christmas movie while drinking our favorite hot chocolate on Christmas Eve, and enjoying homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. We love it all, and the kids are old enough to start asking for/anticipating them. (Which I LOVE!)
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One of my favorite yearly traditions, however, is buying them new Christmas books (and a Christmas movie) that they get to open on Christmas Eve. I don’t know how long I’ll continue doing it, but for now, it has become a treasured tradition.
Needless to say, then, we are starting to amass quite a collection of Christmas books for kids. Add to that all the ones we’ve checked out from the library, and we’re becoming quite the Christmas book aficionados!
If you want to adopt a similar tradition, or you simply need some good recommendations, check out our list of favorite Christmas books for kids.
Favorite Christmas Books for Kids
Looking for the best Christmas books for kids? From board books to picture books, faith-based to just-for-fun, here are some of our family’s favorites!
Faith-Based
The following books center around the story of Jesus’ birth:
The Christmas Story for Children — Max Lucado, Randy Frazee, & Karen Davis Hill
Itsy Bitsy Christmas — Max Lucado
Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale — Martin Waddell
The Crippled Lamb: A Christmas Story About Finding Your Purpose — Max Lucado
One Small Donkey — Dandi Daley Mackall
Humphrey’s First Christmas — Carol Heyer (We LOVE the illustrations in this one!)
‘Twas the Evening of Christmas — Glenys Nellist
The Pine Tree Parable — Liz Curtis Higgs
The Christmas Promise — Alison Mitchell
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Just For Fun
Here are our favorite fun stories for the Christmas season:
Polar Express — Chris Van Allsburg
Dasher — Matt Tavares
The Night Before Christmas — Charles Santore (This is definitely our favorite version. The illustrations are so beautiful!)
Home for Christmas — Jan Brett
Gingerbread Christmas — Jan Brett
The Wild Christmas Reindeer — Jan Brett
Jan Brett’s The Nutcracker — Jan Brett
How the Grinch Stole Christmas — Dr. Seuss
Christmas in the Big Woods (Little House Picture Book) — Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Smallest Gift of Christmas — Peter Reynolds
Pete the Cat’s 12 Groovy Days of Christmas — James Dean and Kimberly Dean
How to Catch a Reindeer — Alice Walstead
How to Catch an Elf — Adam Wallace
How to Catch a Gingerbread Man — Adam Wallace
Little Blue Truck’s Christmas — Alice Schertle
Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree — Robert Barry
Little Red Sleigh — Erin Guendelsberger
Green is For Christmas — Drew Daywalt (Perfect for fans of The Day the Crayons Quit, one of our favorite picture books!)
Bear Stays Up For Christmas — Karma Wilson
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas — John Rox
Llama Llama Holiday Drama — Anna Dewdney
Construction Site on Christmas Night — Sherri Duskey Rinker
Where Do Diggers Celebrate Christmas? — Brianna Caplan Sayres
SHARE WITH US: What Christmas books for kids would you add to this list? Tell me in the comments!
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