The Night Before Christmas Holly Hobbie poem by Clement C. Moore 4 Stars This is another beautiful retelling of Clement C. Moore’s poem The Night Before Christmas. One fun edition is that a little toddler is in most of the illustrations. And as I read it to one of my favorite toddlers he loved to…
Santa Claus and the Three Bears Maria Modugno illustrated by Jane Dyer and Brooke Dyer 3 Stars In this retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears we have three white polar bears who are getting ready for Christmas. Not only are they decorating the house and a Christmas tree, Mama Bear was also making Christmas…
Deck the Walls!: A Wacky Christmas Carol Erin Dealey illustrated by Nick Ward 4 Stars In this parody of “Deck the Halls” readers are shown the hilarity of a family’s Christmas gathering. From cousins playing with food to sledding and posing for a family photo, this goes through all the various scenarios of a family…
Snow Bunny’s Christmas Wish Rebecca Harry 3 Stars Snow Bunny has decided to ask for only one thing for Christmas. She writes to Santa and asks for a friend. She just misses posting her letter before the mail bird leaves. So Snow Bunny must take her letter to Santa on her own. For her journey…
It is that time again. The time when I am starting to pay attention to more Christmas books. But as I am looking at what fun new picture books that I will review over the next little while, I thought I would pull up some of the posts that I wrote on Christmas picture books…
How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas? Jane Yolen and Mark Teague The Blue Sky Press, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-545-41678-8 FORMAT: Picture Book AGES: Preschool 4 Stars I love these Dinosaur books! In everyone I am just happy to read them aloud and gaze at all the detail in the brilliant illustrations. Like with any other “dinosaur”…
Santa from Cincinnati Judi Barrett illustrated by Kevin Hawkesy Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-4424-2993-2 FORMAT: Picture Book AGES: Preschool, Elementary School 3 Stars A young boy was born in the hospital on December 25th. He had a number of crazy things that remind the reader of a particular Jolly Old Elf. For…
The Santa Trap Jonathan Emmett illustrated by Poly Bernatene Peachtree, 2012 in the United States (originally published in Great Britain in 2009) ISBN: 978-1-56145-670-3 FORMAT: Picture Book AGES: Preschool, Elementary School 4 Stars “Bradley Bartleby was bad. He’d been born bad. Before baby Bradley even left the hospital…he’d bitten the midwife on the bottom, stolen…
Pete the Cat Saves Christmas Created and Illustrated by James Dean Story by Eric Litwin Harper, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-06-211062-6 FORMAT: Picture Book AGES: Preschool, Elementary School 4 Stars Santa is sick, what will he do? He will call Pete the Cat! In this musical story, like other Pete the Cat books Pete the Cat saves…
I said before that I went to the Festival of Trees last week. And there were two reasons that I took pictures of a tree. I already showed some of the pictures of trees that I took because I wanted to remember a detail or two. Here are some of the pictures that I took…