 | Nightmare Before Christmas, The by Tim Burton
Buy new: $9.17 / Used from: $17.22 This is one of the first movies I recall ever watching, but the story/poem written by Tim Burton is what started this wonderful adventure! Dive into this book as quickly as you can and you will see how the seasons came to know each other.
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 | The Night Before Christmas (Little Golden Book) by Clement C. Moore
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 This was my first year reading this story. While my brothers enjoyed it, I most definitely fell in love with this classic. If you are a fan of Jeff Dunham, his character "Peanut" also has a different version of this book-though, some may find the language inappropriate for children.
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 | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 The Herdman's are a bad group of siblings that completely ruin the story of the birth of Jesus. However, their interpretation of Herod and the Three Wise men is hilarious and will have the children laughing at every page!
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 | Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $10.00 This story starts with the song Olive misinterprets: "'Olive' the other reindeer..."
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 | The Christmas Story by Jane Werner Watson
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is a children's version of the day Jesus was born. The story is short but definitely worth buying!
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 | The Nativity Story: Children's Movie Storybook by Sadie Chesterfield
Buy used from: $3.50 This particular version of the Nativity story is based off of the movie which is based off of the cleverly written book by Angela E. Hunt. Not only did my brothers love the movie, but they enjoyed the book just as much.
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 | The Snowman Storybook (Pictureback(R)) by Raymond Briggs
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is a beautiful short story about a boy that makes a snowman that comes to life. If you get this and have never read it, I would also recommend buying the film that was created for this book; also called "The Snowman."
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 | I Spy Little Christmas by Jean Marzollo
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 This was used for those days where the boys just wanted to look at pictures rather than constantly reading.
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 | When Santa Fell to Earth by Cornelia Funke
Buy used from: $2.25 I had a mixed review over this story because there is a mediocre child in here that simply does not develop as the story progresses. Whether the child ultimately learns anything, however, will be up to you. The writing is simple creativity that is superb overall!
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 | The Rugrats' Book of Chanukah (Rugrats (Simon & Schuster Paperback)) by Sarah Willson
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 As a huge fan of the Rugrats, I made sure to grab this book so my brothers could also recognize different cultures celebrate in different ways.
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 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Tie-in Edition (rack) (Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is perfect to read in the winter and it adds the magical qualities of hope, love, and trust while also giving us a very important person with the kids---Santa!
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 | A Wish to Be a Christmas Tree by Colleen Monroe
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.79 This board book is for a much younger audience. It received rave reviews from my three year old cousin who kept this version of a "Christmas Tree."
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 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $0.01 This timeless classic is hilarious! I think all of us can say at one point, we have been somewhat similar to the Grinch in our lives.
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 | The Polar Express Gift Set Edition with Book, CD and Cassette by Chris Van Allsburg
Buy used from: $18.29 This gift set was the most wonderful idea to date! Now, the boys read "The Polar Express" and when the bell comes into the story, the boys dive to grab and jingle the bell as loudly as it can jingle.
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 | Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn Buehner
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $7.70 While this was a magnificent book, I received a version that was completly ruined in that the book did not end but restarted. Clearly, the editor of the story missed something...However, the illustrations were beautiful.
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 | A Christmas Carol (Enriched Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $2.49 My brothers were quite young when I first introduced the movie version to them. After the initial shock, their love of this story has grown over the years!
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 | Advent Storybook by Antonie Schneider
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $11.24 This is a short book that dedicates one page to each day of December (altogether 24 stories) that is a continuation of one character's adventure before Christmas.
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