Can anyone recommend an xmas book for a 6 and 9 yr old? Not the christmasaurus.

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We read this last year and they LOVED it. Can anyone recommend something else Christmassy that they will love? Thanks if you can. X

what about the dinosaur that pooped christmas? will link it below x

www.amazon.co.uk/Dinosaur-That-Pooped-Christmas/dp/1849417792?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Totally different but we read The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder last year and the children loved it.
It has 24 chapters, so we read one each evening in advent.

A boy called christmas

Thanks sleep but I think that will be too young for my 9 year old. I will check the other two out later. Thanks.

Stick man
The jolly Christmas postman
The EMPTY stocking

The Night before Christmas?

Jenny Overton's Thirteen Days of Christmas.

The Christmas mystery looks good for my 9 year old but not sure it will grab my 6 year olds attention. Will save that for next year I think. Thank you. A boy called Christmas looks great! Will check the others out too. I want a longish book. Chapter book really that we can read in December up until xmas eve.

I used to love The Jolly Christmas Postman long after I was too old for it. Can't wait until my little one is old enough!

The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden. Absolutely perfect for that age :)

Should say for some reason the recent edition doesn't always come up on Amazon - it's on Kindle here, or paperback here

The Santa Trap

@Sadik that sounds perfect. Shame it’s out of stock on the paperback. Will keep an eye on it. The Santa trap looks fab too. Lots of choices. Thank you

Definitely A Boy Called Christmas :)

Definitely definitely a boy called Christmas. definitely

Matt Haig’s Christmas books are great- start with a. It called christmas.

Christmas on Exeter Street. It's fantastic.

Round the Christmas Tree - books.google.co.uk/books/about/Round_the_Christmas_Tree.html?id=G6qp6Qt1aJIC

It's out of print but you can get second hand ones really cheaply. The stories are short and entertaining, there's one called One More Mince Pie - my DB and I insisted my DM read it to us so frequently every Christmas that she recorded herself reading it onto a cassette

We had to buy another copy so we'd have one each for reading to our kids.

All of Matt Haig’s trilogy - A boy called Cheistmas, The girl who saved Christmas and Father Christmas and me. Read them all last year to my then 7-year-old, and we both enjoyed them a lot, especially the first two books

Loved Natt Haig. We started with The girl who saved xmas without realising it was no 2 and that was fine!

not a fan of A Boy Called Christmas. I think it’s very dark. Maybe for the 9 year old but not for a 6 year old.

The Rover trilogy by Roddy Doyle is fun and I think the last one is Rover Saves Christmas. You could read the first two now and be ready for the third by Christmas.

I’ll have a rummage in the attic later and see if I can find our collection. I can’t think of any off the top of my head right now.

Matt Haig- we loved A Boy called Christmas, especially as DS is called Nicholas.
Going to get the girl who saved Christmas this year. He has a new one coming out in October called The Truth Pixie.

Oooh I might get that one too!!

I don't think A boy called Christmas is any darker than your typical Roald Dahl book. We haven't read the third but the first two books are amazing. So magical.

Also a fan of the runaway troll books also by Matt Haig (not christmas related) which share the same characters. The truth pixie in particular.

My kids are quite averse to dark or scary books and loved a boy called Christmas - I think it's written in a way which lets you know things are going to get better. The youngest was 5.5 and the middle one 9 when we read it (eldest liked it too, but is rather partial to listening to younger books at bedtime, guess its comforting).