An Advent Calendar of books?

[SantanaLopez]

Looking for suggestions. Obviously 24 will be The Night Before Christmas!

[moggle]

How old are the children? Fondly remember the Spot christmas book and Alfie's Christmas...

[I8toys]

I've done this and trying to remember what books we have

Dinosaur that Pooped Christmas
Father Christmas Needs a Wee
Aliens Love Panta Claus
Father Christmas on the Naughty Step
Jolly Christmas Postman
The Christmas Bear
Mr Christmas
Father Christmas Raymond Briggs
The Snowman
How Santa Really Works
Horrible Histories Horrible Christmas
Night before the night before christmas - richard scarry

[gamescompendium]

We've got Christmas books which we've collected over the years (eldest is 7). We have a few Christmassy 'That's Not My...', Kipper's Christmas Eve, A picture book of Mrs PepperPot's Christmas, some of the Mr Men Christmas stories, Alien's Love Christmas (like the underpants book), a 'first christmas' book, a beautiful book of 'on the first day of Christmas...', When the Grinch stole Christmas, a picture book of 'The Nutcracker', Michael Murpurgo's Christmas Stories, The Snowman (the film is better), An Usbourne Christmas Activity book, quite a few sticker books through the years, The Empty Stocking by Richard Curtis, Mog's Christmas, can't remember what else, they are all in the attic at the moment. Lots of classic children's characters have Christmas books about them but we also have random Christmassy books we're received over the years as gifts. We get them all out on 1st December and they get put away on 12th night but we don't have exactly 24. I know of a blogger (in America) who did this and I think she got a lot of books from charity shops, otherwise it could be quite expensive to buy all new, unless The Book People do a Christmas bundle.

[gamescompendium]

Dah dah

[NormHonal]

Definitely check the charity shops - I've bought loads of Christmassy books from our local one.

[SantanaLopez]

Oh these are perfect, thank you!

DD is only two, but she really likes stories at bedtime and sits quite well.

[everydayaschoolday]

I second what other posters have said; we have most of those books listed and they're fab. I get my books from the Book People online - they do lots of bundle sets and are definitely worth a look.

www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&categoryId=139714&topCatId=136340

[everydayaschoolday]

sorry just noticed someone had already posted a link to The Book People. Sorry Games

[Leeds2]

Mr Christmas from the Mr Men series.

There are lots of versions of the Twelve Days of Christmas in book form, which you could sing!

[GemmaPuddledDuck]

Stick Man

[Takver]

Not helpful for you, OP, but anyone with an older child (maybe 6+), 'The Story of Holly and Ivy' is lovely (in fact I defy you not to cry just a little bit when you read it )

OP, if you can find a copy, 'Lucy and Tom's Christmas'

[Takver]

Oh, and another one for older dc (maybe 4+ though probably need to be adult to get all the jokes in the pictures!) - The Church Mice at Christmas

[everydayaschoolday]

Also, I'd recommend, in addition to the above suggestions, to search under the publisher Usborne - they have beautiful children's books :)

[SantanaLopez]

Thanks again. Looking all these up!