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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorGingerbread Baby
Jan Brett · 36 pages
A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar tale about a not-so-clever gingerbread man.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss · 64 pages
The Grinch tries to stop Christmas from arriving by stealing all the presents and food from the village, but much to his surprise it comes anyway. Could Christmas be more than presents?
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs
Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Jacob Grimm · 32 pages
Baboushka and the Three Kings
Ruth Robbins · 32 pages
An old woman who was too busy to travel with the Wise Men to find the Child now searches endlessly for Him each Christmas season.
Babar and Father Christmas
Jean de Brunhoff
Babar’s children have caught wind of a fellow in Man’s country named Father Christmas who brings joy and toys to little children. “If only we could bring him here,” they wish. So they write the Christmas saint a letter inviting him to visit them. When they get no reply, Babar, ever the good father, rushes out to find the red-suited one. After much searching, and with the help of a dog named Duck,
Nine Days to Christmas: A Story of Mexico
Marie Hall Ets, Aurora Labastida · 48 pages
Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.
Madeline's Christmas
Ludwig Bemelmans · 32 pages
With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas Eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school, and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician.
Christmas in Noisy Village
Astrid Lindgren · 30 pages
The noisy children of three neighboring families have a gay time at Christmas baking cookies, cutting and decorating trees, eating fruitcake and tarts, and opening Christmas gifts.
The Snowman
Raymond Briggs · 32 pages
When his snowman comes to life, a little boy invites him home and in return is taken on a flight high above the countryside.
The Night Before Christmas
Clement Clarke Moore · 32 pages
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Charles M. Schulz · 192 pages
Surrounded by other children with extremely commercial ideas about Christmas, Charlie Brown struggles to understand the true spirit of the holiday.
The Sleeping Beauty
C.S. Evans
Through simple text and silhouette illustrations, relates the classic tale of the consequences when, disgruntled at not being invited to the princess's christening, a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for a hundred years.
Rapunzel
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.
The Tailor of Gloucester
Beatrix Potter · 59 pages
When the tailor becomes sick and cannot finish the waistcoat for the Mayor, the mice finish it for him.
Who Is Coming to Our House? (Sandcastle Book)
Joseph Slate · 32 pages
The Night Before Christmas (Gift Edition)
By Clement C. Moore; illustrated by Tomie dePaola
Dear Mili
Wilhelm Grimm · 40 pages
In order to save her daughter from a terrible war, the mother sends her into the forest telling her to return in three days. She meets St. Joseph who cares for her for three days, which in reality is thirty years.
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story
Gloria Houston · 32 pages
Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war.
It's Christmas, David!
David Shannon
Christmas has arrived with so many rules to follow that David fears his mistakes will cause Santa to pass him by.
Margret And H.A. Rey's Merry Christmas, Curious George
Margret Rey, H.A. Rey, Catherine Hapka · 32 pages
Letters from Father Christmas
J.R.R. Tolkien · 157 pages
A collection of illustrated letters from Father Christmas recapping the activities of the preceding year at the North Pole. The letters were written by the author to his children.
The Little Fir Tree
Margaret Wise Brown · 32 pages
A lonely little fir tree, standing by itself at the edge of the forest, has its life transformed when a father takes it home to serve as a living Christmas tree for his bedridden son.
Stick Man
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler · 32 pages
Stick Man ends up far away from his family tree when he is fetched by a dog, thrown by a child, used as a snowman's arm, and even put on a fire, but finally Santa Claus steps in to make sure that Stick Man and his family have a joyous Christmas.