Your favourite children's Christmas book?

[Moxiechick]

I've just started thinking about some ideas for this years Christmas Eve boxes for my dd and dn who will be 3.5 and 2.5.
Looking for Christmas books and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions.
I remember having a personalised Christmas book when I was younger where I went in the sleigh with Santa and delivered gifts to my friends.
What's your favourite Christmas book?

Little Rabbit's Christmas by Harry Horse.

Another vote for Holly and Ivy.

There is an American classic called Nancy and Plum, about 2 little girls which has a sad Christmas at the start and a happy one at the end.

I love the Christmases in What Katy Did and What Katy Did at School.

The night before Christmas.
I fear we had the last reading last year.
The older dc were home 25 and 21, they promised to be there until dd was older and they have.
we all piled into her room to hear the story, it was very sweet and this year will be the first in 25 years if we don't read it.

Angel Mae by Shirley Hughes

Or The Other Goose by Judith Kerr

thank you for this thread. Totally getting the jolly postman and few more.

We have the usborne pop up nativity and its lovely

Puppy's first Christmas is a good one, we read it throughout the year. It has fluffy bits to feel too

My Dd liked Lettice - a Christmas wish. We got it cheaper in the works last Christmas.
www.waterstones.com/book/a-christmas-wish/mandy-stanley/9780007165858

The Christmas Bower by Polly Redmond is a brilliant chapter book about a family who own a department store. The young boy Noah and his mad Uncle Willie only care about ornithology. Illustrations are by the same person who did The Shrinking of Treehorn.

Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs. A grumpy FC for once, hooray!
We all love the illustrations and snuggle on the bed to narrate them with tried and trusted words. Funnily enough, we've never seen the film.

My own paperback edition got so flabby from being read all through the year with both DC that I got a new one two Christmases ago from a secret admirer!

The Empty Stocking by Richard Curtis
Christmas in Exeter Street
Jolly Christmas Postman
Santa Mouse

Boogers that is so wrong! Would anybody notice if you got your own stocking and filled it with lovely treats?

The children's Christmas book I re-read in the run up to Christmas every year is The Dark Is Rising... not an obvious one but it has some very Christmassy moments. My DC are too young for that, they can just about follow The Night Before Christmas!

Alfie's Christmas by Shirley Hughes, it's a newish release but I find all Shirley Hughrs illustrations nostalgic. It's like an updated version of Lucy and Toms Christmas but I think that has been rereleased too

Also Mogs Christmas, the night before Christmas (we have several different versions) and Stick Man.

We read The Night Before Christmas every Christmas Eve.

Last year, I read A Boy Called Christmas to them over the fortnight before. I think we'll do that again this year.

Used to love 'Kipper's Christmas Eve' by Mick Inkpen, when the kids were little

Enid Blyton has a collection of short stories linked by a longer tale of a very twee family with kids back from boarding school - I love it. Read it to my son every night of Advent.

Cops and Robbers

Ooooh user I love the combination of Enid Blyton + Christmas + fictional boarding school + twee family

Could any MNrs help with the title?

Moonrocks6 - thanks for that recommendation -that book looks so lovely! I've just ordered it!

Moonrocks6 - thanks for that recommendation -that book looks so lovely! I've just ordered it!

Absolute favourite is The Empty Stocking by Richard Curtis. Such a lovely story.

Elvira the Blyton one is just called Enid Blyton's Christmas Stories. The Book People often have a reissue of it discounted closer to Christmas.

I've been collecting Christmas books for DD and last year's favourites were Mog's Christmas, Alfie's Christmas, Lucy and Tom's Christmas, Walter de la Mare's Snow, and The Night Before Christmas. This year I've already bought DD The Jolly Christmas Postman, The Empty Stocking and Little Grey Rabbit's Christmas - really looking forward to these!

For me -- I revisit The Dark Is Rising, the Christmassy chapters of The Armourer's House and Jo of the Chalet School (LOVE the descriptions of an Innsbruck Christmas - gets me every year!), The Box of Delights, and The Children of Green Knowe. Super-excited this year to rematch the 1980s BBC TV version of The Children of Green Knowe which I loved on first release and which has just been reissued. I'm holding back watching it until Advent!

*rewatch not rematch!

Morris's Disappearing Bag by Rosemary Wells. I had it as a kid too.
We have quite a few (some have already been mentioned), they all get packed away with the decorations and only come out to be read in December.

Really hope you like it AriNi31