 | The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore and Leonard Weisgard
Buy used from: $8.00 I'm partial to these illustrations from my childhood. Bought this for $5 at Barnes & Noble
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 | The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $2.70 A lamb left behind gets to be in the stable with Jesus at His birth
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 | The Little Drummer Boy by Ezra Jack Keats
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.36 Love this one with Keats' funky pictures
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 | The Christmas Story: From the Gospel According to St. Luke from the King James Bible by King James Bible
Buy used from: $5.22 King James version of St. Luke's account
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 | The Sweet Smell of Christmas (Scented Storybook) by Patricia M. Scarry
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 childhood memories..cute and fun
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 | Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.00 one of our Boys' favorites. Jan Brett's pictures are *fantastic*
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 | The Christmas Story by Jane Werner Watson
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 sweet! I love this old golden book version.
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| Frosty the Snowman (A Little golden book) by Annie North Bedford
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| Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (A Little Golden Book # 452-09) by Barbara Shook Hazen
Buy used from: $1.10 childhood favorite pictures
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 | The Tomten by Astrid Lindgren
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.41 *Really lovely prose...for winter, not Christmas* Soft and sweet to read in Winter
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| Take Joy: Tasha Tudor Christmas Book by Tasha Tudor
Buy used from: $31.49 a neat compilation of songs, stories, poems and things to do from the always-wonderful Miss Tudor
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 | A Little House Christmas Treasury: Festive Holiday Stories by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $7.38 For later..I'd like to read the Christmas portions of Mrs. Wilder's original stories..how warm!
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 | Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $9.48 Written years ago by Pearl Buck...this is a sweet, quiet story of serving one another. The pictures are beautiful. You will be touched at the end.
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 | The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
Buy new: $12.47 / Used from: $4.85 Just find "The Gift of the Magi" by O.Henry...I read it aloud to my husband. It's an awesome short story.
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 | The Clown of God by Tomie dePaola
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $1.37 Part of our "Five in a Row" curriculum. We loved this story set in Italy during the Renaissance. I loved the part about glorifying God in all that we do and discussing orphans, the poor. It also spurred us on to serve "the least of these" for Jesus' birthday. Be prepared to discuss the fact that God is "a spirit and does not have a body as we do"
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 | The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey with CD: Gift Edition by Susan Wojciechowski
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $7.49 A wonderful story. The CD is a reading by James Earl Jones and is terrific.
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 | Good King Wenceslas by John M. Neale
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.95 Our family LOVED this...rich, wonderful illustrations. Great story and rich music. Now we love the song SO much more.
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 | Apple Tree Christmas Edition 1. by Trinka Hakes Noble
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $9.99 See review at "Path Made Straight" blog. My children loved this book. Simple, dear story with great pictures. Very much like Little House and just as good quality.
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 | A Christmas Like Helen's by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.26 Beautiful, old fashioned simple Christmas in the country. Wood block illustrations.
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