When I was a kid, I remember taking a few picture books to bed with me and look at them before I fell asleep. It was always fun when the Christmas books came out. My mom just retired from teaching kindergarten so as you can imagine, we had a lot of Children’s books in the house. I asked her to help me make a list of 25 books – how fun would it be to read one of these books a night leading up to Christmas?

25 Essential Children’s Christmas Books

1. Twelve Days of Christmas (Jan Brett)
2. Christmas Remembered (Tomie dePaola)
3. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Barbara Robinson)
4. Llama llama Holiday Drama (Anna Dewdney)
5. The Mitten (Jan Brett)
6. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Dr. Seuss)
7. Wombat Divine (Mem Fox)
8. Christmas Alphabet (Robert Sabuda)
9. Trouble With Trolls (Jan Brett)
10. Alabaster’s Song (Max Lucado)
11. Dream Snow (Eric Carle)
12. The Polar Express (Chris Van Allsburg)
13. The Hat (Jan Brett)
14. Little Drummer Boy (Ezra Jack Keats)
15. The Crippled Lamb (Max Lucado)
16. The First Christmas (Tomie dePaola)
17. The Sweet Smell of Christmas (Patricia Scarry)
18. The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats)
19. The Nativity (Julie Vivas)
20. The Last Straw (Frederick H Thury)
21. Snowballs (Lois Ehlert)
22. Making A Friend (Alison McGhee)
23. The Twelve Dogs of Christmas (Emma Kragen)
24. If You Take A Mouse To The Movies (Laura Numeroff)
25. The Animal’s Christmas Carol (Helen Ward)

Have you read any of these books? Which ones are going to make it to your house this Christmas season?