The best christmas childrens books please!

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I saw a thread once with a tonne of great suggestions, can’t for the life of me find it now. So please throw some good recommendations my way! 😊 🎅 🌲 ⛄️

Not sure what age range you are looking for but favourites in our house are: Raymond Briggs Father Christmas, Barbara Reid's The Night Before Christmas (we love the illustrations in both of these books)
A christmas for Bear by Bonnie Becker and Janet and allan ahlberg's The Jolly Christmas postman.

It's surely the Jolly Christmas Postman!

The Empty Stocking (by Richard Curtis) makes me choke up every time I read it!

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey.

The Christmasauras.

Christmas on Exeter Street is lovely

The jolly Christmas postman
The dinosaur that pooped Christmas
Father Christmas needs a wee
A boy called Christmas

Christmas in exeter street is by far the best. Dd loves it.

I also love the christmas stocking.

Dds other favourite is the story orchestra version of the nutcraker.

The Father Christmas Letters by JRR Tolkien
The Thirteen Days of Christmas by Jenny Overton
The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston

What age? Infant / junior / teen?

Dd is 3 and Ds 8 so ideally stories that they will both like. I like the ones that bring a tear to my eye 😂 we have got the jolly postman at Christmas, will have a look at the ones been suggested so far, thank you everyone 😊

Lucy and Tom's Christmas by Shirley Hughes.
Dear Santa is lovely for little ones.
I collected a few over the years and I keep them with the decorations so we only read them in December.

The Works have a 24 pack of children's Christmas stories this year we are doing these books as an advent calendar and can save for Christmases to come.

Father Christmas Needs a Wee, not a tear jerker obvs but funny

Walter Wick has several search and find Christmas books including some early readers. We love this night before Christmas one

Jesus’ Christmas Party is lovely. Funny and gentle.

Kipper's Christmas Eve is lovely

The girl who stole the stars is a lovely newly released book for this age range.

We read How Winston Delivered Christmas last year. It's like an advent book, so one chapter per night up until Christmas. Really lovely.

And Christmas on Exeter Street is a Christmas Eve favourite here.

Papa nova special day.

The nutcracker...

The Story Of Holly And Ivy -Rumer Godden - is lovely. About an orphan and a doll. I read it every year. Very short book.

The Polar Express
Coming Home by Michael Morpurgo is one of the three children’s favourite books of all time. It’s about a robin making the treacherous journey home for Christmas to be with his little Robin wife.
Every time I read it to them my eyes fill with tears

Room For A Little One is lovely - it’s the Nativity, but from the POV of all the animals keeping warm in the stable on a cold night. Truly beautiful full page colour illustrations.

The Christmas Bear by Anne Mangan is very old but such a lovely gorgeous book.

This year I’ve ordered the Grinch!

Lucy and Tom’s Christmas is so lovely and always brings a tear to my eye. Perhaps aimed at younger kids, definitely good for your 3 yr old!
The Church Mice at Christmas by Graham Oakley is also great, it has wonderful illustrations and would be suitable for an 8 year old.

Oh and the Brambly Hedge Winter Story, I loved that one as a child.