Christmas Books

[athomewithkerry]

Has anyone got any recommendations for a book to buy each of my daughters. I want to buy each of my girls a special book for Christmas. Something magical for my 9 year old to read by herself and something nice for my 4 year old. Any suggestions would be appreciated

for your 4 year old:

the mouse that cancelled christmas or if you wanted it to be really special, you could get a personalised one

for your 9 year old:
the accidental father christmas

all the best x

The jolly Christmas postman is lovely

2nd Jolly postman, also Raymond Briggs Father Christmas maybe not magical but a classic...and there is often a show around too
Polar Express - we never warmed to it but is still part of the xmas bookshelf!
Olivia Christmas is another fun one

When I was 9 (in the 80s!) I loved "plain lane christmas" I don't know if it is still in print, but I still have it. It's still relevant today about making Christmas less commercial

Oh oh oh! I came on expecting you to want an adult's book, and I was going to recommend the most lovely children's book anyway because I adore it, but you actually want a children's book, yay!

I LOVE - and I cannot stress this enough - Alison Uttley's Stories for Christmas. My granny gave it to me at Christmas when I was maybe 6 or 7, and I've read it every Christmas since. It's a series of short stories, focussing on magical, traditional lovely Christmases. Some are about animals (Sam Pig etc), there's one about a poor family who have nothing but there's a magical Christmas Eve when the cat and the mice and spiders decorate the house and make mince pies, there's one about a tiny fir tree who has an adventure being a Christmas tree for a few days. My absolute favourite is about some dolls in a Victorian dolls' house coming alive for Christmas Eve. It's just lovely and sweet and old fashioned. It's out of print but there are lots of old copies on Amazon.

Oh. I just noticed it's a zombie thread.

Still a good thread!