Christmas novel for children

[slappinthebass]

I usually get a couple of new Christmas picture books to add to the collection but only ever get picture books for the younger ones. Any ideas for an 11 year old? I usually give them on Christmas Eve, but think I'll change it to the day we put the tree up so we have longer to enjoy them.

Frost Hollow Hall by Emma Carroll isn't exactly Christmassy but very wintery and a stonking good ghost story for the age group.

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
A Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas
Letters From Father Christmas - JRR Tolkien

We'd read these together too, on the sofa by the fire or in bed, taking it in turns to read out a paragraph, page or chapter - whatever fits with the DC's reading level. All hopefully enjoyable for you too OP.

I'll pop back with more if I get chance to look at the DCs' bookshelves, but these are the ones that spring immediately to mind.

HTH.

Father Christmas and Me by Matt Haig
A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig
Christmas Dinner of Souls by Ross Montgomery
Father Christmas's Fake Beard by Terry Pratchet
Can Doctor proctor Save Christmas?
The Accidental Father Christmas

Lost Christmas by David Logan. It's brilliant, I bought it years ago for my then 11 year old, but I read it myself every year too!

All of my boys love The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher

The Box of Delights

The Children of Green Knowe is end of term/Christmassy, as is The Dark is Rising. Both suitable for 11 yo.

101 Dalmatians (Dodie Smith, not Disney) for younger (but if 11 yo hasn't read it, why not).

Not "why not" as in why have they not read it! It's a lovely book, and something a little less challenging might be just the ticket at the end of a long term!

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper is very christmassy and ok for an 11yo.

Just marking place for ideas for DD - I have a few Christmas anthologies with extracts from various classics and some poetry etc, but nothing along the lines of a longer book.

Her Santa books this year are a really lovely looking hardback on Weather by an Irish meteorologist, and 2 novels (1 by an Irish author, 1 a UK author) recommended in the bookshop (1 is definitely about a mystery on an island off the coast of Ireland, suitable for those who love HP etc, and I can't remember the other - they're safe in the top of my wardrobe). But I would like a nice Christmassy one as well.

The Thirteen Days of Christmas by Jenny Overton was my favourite as a child of exactly that age. It's lovely and sadly pretty much forgotten.