Having a Christmas Reading Tradition for the countdown to Christmas is fun for the whole family! We have a list for you to choose your 24 favorites!
Christmas Reading Tradition – Countdown to Christmas
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The Christmas season is made up of a wide variety of traditions. This year consider adding this meaningful tradition to your holiday season. Before December strikes, wrap up 24 Christmas storybooks, label them 1 through 24, and put them under your Christmas tree. Each evening in December, have your children unwrap that day’s book and read it as a family that night. Involve your older kids by having them read aloud to their younger siblings some evenings.
We’ve compiled a list of 41 Christmas storybooks that we think your family will enjoy. As mentioned previously, this tradition only requires 24 books, so with this list, you’ve got options! There really are no bounds to how you choose to start this tradition!
Links to purchase these books are included in the post, however, consider checking some out from your local library to make this a budget-friendly tradition.
This “Countdown to Christmas” tradition is bound to help your family remember the reason for the season while fostering family connection and a love for reading.
A Wish to be a Christmas Tree
Written by Colleen Monroe
Bear Stays Up for Christmas
Written by Karma Wilson
Dream Snow
Written by Eric Carle
God Gave Us Christmas
Written by Lisa Bergen and David Holm
How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas?
Written by Jane Yolen
How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
Written by Dr. Seuss
Llama Llama Jingle Bells
Written by Anna Dewdney
Room for a Little One
Written by Martin Waddell
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Written by Robert L. May
Snowmen at Night
Written by Caralyn Buehner
The Christmas Wish
Written by Lori Evert
The Crippled Lamb
Written by Max Lucado
The Littlest Elf
Written by Brandi Dougherty
The Night Before Christmas
Written by Charles Santore
The Polar Express
Written by Chris Van Allsburg
Georgie the Gingerbread Fairy
Written by Tim Bugbird
Written by Susan Middleton and Merry Banks
How Santa Got His Job
Written by Stephen Krensky
What is Christmas?
Written by Michelle Medlock-Adams
If You Take a Mouse to the Movies
Written by Laura Numeroff
It’s Christmas, David!
Written by David Shannon
Hurry, Santa!
Written by Julia Sykes
Olive, the Other Reindeer
Written by Vivian Walsh
The Christmas Train: A True Story
Written by Thomas S. Monson
Moostletoe
Written by Margie Palatini
How to Catch Santa
Written by Jean Reagan
Disney Christmas Storybook Collection
Written by Elle D. Risco
Turkey Claus
Written by Wendi Silvano
The Gingerbread Man
Written by Jim Aylesworth and Barbara McClintock
The Legend of the Candy Cane
Written by Lori Walburg
The Nativity
Written by Julie Vivas
Santa’s Favorite Story
Written by Hisako Aoki
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story
Written by Gloria Houston
Christmas Farm
Written by Mary Lyn Ray
Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree
Written by Robert Barry
Santa Claus
Written by Rod Green
Mortimer’s Christmas Manger
Written by Karma Wilson
How to Catch an Elf
Written by Adam Wallace
Searching for Christmas
Written by Holly Ann Gardner
Asleep on the Hay: A Dust Bowl Christmas
Written by Ben Sowards
Christmas from Heaven: The True Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber
Written by Tom Brokaw
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