The MUST-read Christmas Book List

Here's our family's top 32 recommendations for the MUST-read Christmas Book List.
Click on the link to check out more book images and discover a brief synopsis of each story.  If the title doesn't have a link yet, check back, for I'll have a posting by the end of December.

The Classics:

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens illus. P.J. Lynch
• The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter
• Take Joy! The Tasha Tudor Christmas Book
• Peter Spier’s CHRISTMAS!
• The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! By Dr. Seuss
• Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry
• The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• My Favorite Things illustrated by Renee Graef

The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore

• illustratedby Holly Hobbie
• illustratedby Tasha Tudor
• illustratedby Niroot Puttapipat
• illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa

The Very First Christmas:

• Christmas is Here illus. by Lauren Castillo
• The Little Drummer Boy by Ezra Jack Keats
• The Christmas Story by Jane Werner & Eloise Wilkin
• This is the Stable by Cynthia Cotton & Delana Bettoli

The Twelve Days of Christmas:

• illustrated by Gennady Spirin
• illustrated by Laurel Long
• illustrated by Hilary Knight

The Nutcracker:

• illustrated by Susan Jeffers
• illustrated by Diane Goode
• A Step into Reading Level 3

The stories that will warm your heart:

• The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston& Barbara Cooney
• Good King Wenceslas by John M. Neale illustrated by Tim Ladwig
• Christmas in the Country by Cynthia Rylant & Diane Goode
• An Orange for Frankie by Patricia Polacco
• Dream Snow by Eric Carle
• The Trees of the Dancing Goats by Patricia Polacco
• I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day by Lloyd & KarmelNewell
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by  Robert Frost illus. by Susan Jeffers
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson