 | The Nativity by Julie Vivas
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.49 This one is a favorite! Angels in hiking boots and sneakers and a VERY pregnant Mary. Text is from the Bible.
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 | We Were There: A Nativity Story by Eve Bunting
Buy new: $2.88 / Used from: $2.81 This story is glorious. It could be my favorite Christmas book. Ever. Animals that are hard to love make their way to the stable.
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 | Bethlehem: Revised Standard Version Of The Holy Bible, Catholic Edition by Fiona French
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.45 Beautiful book, with stained glass paintings.
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 | The Legend of the Christmas Rose by William H. Hooks
Buy used from: $0.99 I really like legend books. This one is sweet.
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 | Bright Christmas : An Angel Remembers by Andrew Clements
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 Angels remember the birth of Christ in this story.
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 | What Star Is This? by Joseph Slate
Buy new: $14.46 / Used from: $0.01 The star is a comet in this book... very scientifically sound!
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 | This Is the Stable by Cynthia Cotten
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.52 Angels appear in every picture... the story is like "The House that Jack built."
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 | Through the Animals' Eyes: A Story of the First Christmas by Christopher Wormell
Buy new: $16.11 / Used from: $0.01 Gorgeous woodcuts and sparse storytelling make this book memorable. Always very popular.
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 | Tonight You Are My Baby: Mary's Christmas Gift (HarperBlessings) by Jeannine Q. Norris
Buy new: $14.44 / Used from: $6.57 This one is sweet... a kind of lullaby Mary sings to her baby.
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 | A Small Nativity by Aquiles Nazoa
Buy new: $5.59 / Used from: $0.78 South American Nativity story... really neat. And actually quite small!
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 | The First Christmas (Festive Pop-Up Book) by Tomie dePaola
Buy used from: $0.22 A really cool pop-up book. Very popular with the kids.
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 | The Night of Las Posadas (Picture Puffins) by Tomie dePaola
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.83 The snowy statue gets the kids every time!
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 | The Legend of Saint Nicholas by Demi
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.00 These next books I use for celebrations during Advent... this one is for the Feast Day of Saint Nicholas.
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 | The Immaculate Conception (Package of 10) by Jude Winkler
Buy new: $1.50 / Used from: $0.01 For the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, a Holy Day of Obligation.
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 | The Lady of Guadalupe by Tomie dePaola
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $10.95 For the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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 | Wenceslas: The Eternal Christmas Story by Geraldine McCaughrean
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $2.68 For the Feast Day of Saint Steven (actually after Christmas, but that is neither here nor there) and goes with my next group, books based on carols.
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 | The Little Drummer Boy Board Book
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.29 My favorite carol... a beautifully illustrated version.
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 | The Little Drummer Boy by Henry Onorati
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Here is a different drummer boy... my students usually sing along with the book.
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 | The Friendly Beasts by Tomie dePaola
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.15 "Jesus, our brother..." such a sweet little song.
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 | We Three Kings
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $7.65 Gorgeous. So popular last year that I read it before Christmas break and on the Feast of the Epiphany.
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 | The Little Drummer Mouse by Mercer Mayer
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $1.49 Beautiful. Very much like his fairy tale work. The kids love this book.
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 | On Christmas Eve by Margaret Wise Brown
Buy used from: $5.88 Fun, old-fashioned Christmas story.
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 | Drummer Boy by Loren Long
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $0.78 Reminds me of the "Steadfast Tin Soldier."
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 | The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey with CD: Gift Edition by Susan Wojciechowski
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $3.38 This one is gut-wrenching. Kinda long... I've split it over two days or AM and PM.
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 | Light The Lights! A Story About Celebrating Hanukkah And Christmas by Margaret Moorman
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Good book about both holidays... we read this the first "night" (obviously, we are reading it during the day) of Hanukkah before we light the lights of our menorah.
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 | Holly Claus: The Christmas Princess (Julie Andrews Collection) by Brittney Ryan
Buy new: $16.71 / Used from: $0.01 A Christmas love story... not too mushy though. Even the boys get into this one.
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 | The Polar Express Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Chris Van Allsburg
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $18.69 The kids are always so surprised that this wonderful book looks nothing like the movie.
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 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 The wonderful classic... I usually read this a couple times during the season.
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 | The Little Drummer Boy
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.85 We watch this together.
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 | Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Plus Halloween & Easter Celebrations
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $17.69 We watch this together and the kids sing along... this one always brings back memories of when I was a kid.
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![Life & Adventures of Santa Claus [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J2FQQ4GVL._SL75_.jpg) | Life & Adventures of Santa Claus [VHS]
Buy used from: $29.99 Boy, it would be nice to have this on DVD. My "taped off of TV" version is about shot.
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