Your favourite Christmas/Winter themed books needed for a Book Advent Calendar.

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Every year I wrap 24 Christmassy books in an assortment of paper and put them all in a festive basket type thing by the fire and my DS's take turns to chose one each night and we cuddle up and read it.

I know I'm wanky and twee but I love it.

They do actually behave and it turns out how my twee little brain wants it to go unlike everything else where they bicker and ruin the image in my head.

So, I've got pretty much the main books that everyone thinks of so I need some less known ideas. I've 14 books so far so need another 10 ideas, pretty please.

Oh any my DS's are 6 and 9. So picture story books are still loved but I need a few ideas for older books for my DS1.

So far I have

Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R.Tolkien
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming by Lemony Snicket
The Smelly Sprout by Allan Plenderleith
The Truth About Christmas by Philip Ardagh
Father Christmas goes on Holiday by Raymond Briggs
The Lump of Coal by Lemony Snicket
Merry Christmas, Splat by Rob Scotton
The Lighthouse Keeper's Christmas by Ronda & David Armitage
The Santa Trap by Jonathan Emmett & Poly Bernatene
The Empty Stocking by Richard Curtis
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L.Frank Baum
Horrible Histories Horrible Christmas by Terry Deary & Martin Brown
Jesus' Christmas Party by Nicholas Allan
Rover Saves Christmas by Roddy Doyle

I can't find my previous lists but a few of the books from last year are (in case anyone else needs ideas, some have already been mentioned though)

The Jolly Vhristmas Postman
Dear Santa
Little Grey Rabbits Christmas
One Snowy Night
Mogs's Christmas
The Christmas Eve Ghost
Santa Claus Needs a Wee
The Tomten and the Fox
How Santa Really Works
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Lucy and Tom's Christmas
Aliens Love Panta Claus
The Polar Express

Thanks everyone else that's added to the thread, will be looking up all your ideas too.

The Guinea-Pig Nativity

Christmas in Exeter Street by Diana Hendry. Dd still likes to get it out at Christmas even though she is 14.

santa all about me

you can't read it all in one night but it is a lovely Christmas book

Father Christmas needs a wee
Father Christmas comes up trumps

for the younger one
Mog's Christmas
Santas Busy Day
Toscas Christmas
The Christmas star
The Church Mice at Christmas
Mouse's christmas wish
The little christmas tree

for the older one
Narnia
Letters to Father Christmas
Disney frozen book of the film
The best christmas present in the world
A christmas carol
Oxford book of christmas stories
The christmas puppy (jenny dales puppy tales)
christmas animal ark books

really do get the dinosaur who pooped christmas, i got it for my girls who were 8 and 7 last year, it had them in hysterics and they still love it now

Another for Lucy and Tom's Christmas, I've read it every year since I can remember.

The bear's winter house - John Yeoman

reindeer girl - Holly Webb

We have loved "Mr Willowby's Christmas Tree" by Robert Barry, and "Ollie's Ski Trip" by Elsa Beskow - both books have the most beautiful illustrations too.

Stick Man... he just wants to get home to the family tree for Christmas.

Great thread, so many fantastic books. We do the basket that comes out on 1st December with all the Christmas books, plus a lot of few new ones (thank you Mumsnet for that one!)

I came onto suggest the wonderful Church Mice at Christmas that I loved as a child and am hoping my own children will enjoy this Christmas, but see I've been beaten to it.