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12 Children’s Christmas Books for Little Learners

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This is seriously my most favorite time of the year. It makes me happy. You can bet I spend most of December reading Children’s Christmas books to my students and children. They LOVE them and, honestly, so do I. So, I am excited to share my 12 favorite Christmas books with you!

Children's Christmas Books | Children's Christmas Books for Little Learners are a great stocking stuffer or to read to your students in a classroom setting!

Reading some of these Children’s Christmas Books to your little ones is a great way to really get everyone excited about the upcoming holiday.  Even at a young age, children can become enthralled with the stories of Christmas.  These are all excellent choices to help encourage their love of reading and story time.

12 Children’s Christmas Books for Little Learners

A Wish to be a Christmas Tree by Colleen Monroe

Our 12 favorite Christmas books are perfect for your Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

Some birds, a deer, and a squirrel work to cheer up an aging pine that’s never gotten to be a Christmas tree.  A lovely story with beautiful wildlife illustrations.

Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson

Our 12 favorite Christmas books are perfect for your Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

Bear would normally hibernate right through Christmas, but this year, his friends are determined to keep him awake and show him what he’s missing!

The Littlest Elf by Brandi Dougherty

Our 12 favorite Christmas books are perfect for your Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

New York Time’s bestsellers of the book, The Littlest Penguin, bring us this sweet holiday story about the littlest elf! This book includes stickers too, which your little one is sure to enjoy.  This is definitely one of those children’s Christmas books I would tuck into a stocking!

How do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas? by Jane Yolen

Our 12 favorite Christmas books are perfect for your Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

Laugh out loud at this comical look at what would happen if Dinosaurs tried to celebrate Christmas with us!

Clifford’s Christmas by Norman Bridwell

Our 12 favorite Christmas books are perfect for your Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

Even everyone’s favorite big red dog celebrates Christmas! Learn about the traditions in Emily Elizabeth’s family while you add this book to your Clifford collection.

Corduroy’s Christmas Surprise by Don Freeman

Our 12 favorite Christmas books are perfect for your Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

See how Corduroy the bear goes from making a list of things he wants for Christmas, to instead making a list of things that his friends need for Christmas. He learns that it is important to think of others!  The Corduroy books are some of our favorites, and definitely top on the list of children’s Christmas books!

Dream Snow by Eric Carle

Our 12 favorite Christmas books are perfect for your Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

Young readers will love this Lift-the-flap board book  about a farmer and his snowy dream. I wonder who that farmer becomes in his dream?

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

Our 12 favorite Christmas books are perfect for your Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

A Christmas season cannot go by in our house without reading this book at least 10 times! If you don’t have this classic in your collection, I urge you look into that!

The Littlest Christmas Tree by R.A. Herman

Our 12 favorite Christmas books are perfect for your Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

This is a lovely and uplifting story about a little Christmas tree whose wishes finally come true when somebody takes her home.

Pete the Cat Saves Christmas by James Dean

Our 12 favorite Christmas books are perfect for your Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

In this rockin’ new spin on the traditional tale, The Night Before Christmas, Pete the Cat proves that giving your all in the spirit of Christmas is the totally groovy thing to do.

Llama Llama Holiday Drama by Anna Dewdney

Our 12 favorite Christmas books are perfect for your Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

Poor Llama Llama is tired of waiting for Christmas to come! This rhyming book gets the impatient emotions of a preschooler spot-on.  Your children will laugh at and relate to Llama Llama’s drama.

Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Berry

Our 12 favorite Christmas books are perfect for your Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

Mr. Willowby’s tree is too tall for his room. But what will happen to the top that got cut off? Find out as this story unfolds.

Can you not find a resource that you would LOVE to have for your classroom? Contact me and I would be happy to make it for you.

Don’t forget to check out all of the children’s book lists featured on A Dab of Glue Will Do.  Do you have any favorite children’s Christmas books that are not on the list? If so, please share in the comments below.  If you are looking for more Christmas ideas, activities, and printables to do at home or in the classroom make sure to check out our other Christmas Lessons.

More Christmas Learning Ideas:

12 Reindeer Books For Little Learners

12 Gingerbread Books For Little Learners

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