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12 Santa Books for Little Learners

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Raise your hand if you love Christmas? {both of my hands are up high in the sky!} There is something magical about this time of year. When you see the wonder and excitement in your students and/or children’s eyes you cannot help, but believe. These Santa Books are guaranteed to get you and your students excited and in the mood this Christmas season. Here are 12 of my favorite Santa books. Are you looking for more Christmas ideas, activities, and printables to do at home or in the classroom? If so click here.

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

How to Catch Santa by Jean Reagan

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

A #1 New York Times Bestseller, How to Catch Santa is a humorous How To book that gives tips and tricks for catching Ol’ Saint Nick.

How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky

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

This funny story gives you the details of Santa’s resume before he was hired for his current gig! This book is a run read for both kids and adults.

Santa’s Stuck by Rhonda Gowler Greene

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

This playful picture book answers the age-old question: Just how does Santa get up and down chimneys?

Santa Claus and the Three Bears by Maria Modugno

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

Enjoy this twist on the traditional Goldilocks story. Here, the three bears go out for a walk and come home to find that their things were used by someone else.

Santasaurus by Niamh Sharkey

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

Young kids will enjoy the beautiful images in this picture book, and parents will appreciate the lighthearted and peaceful holiday story. As an added bonus, all of the characters are dinosaurs!

Santa’s Underwear by Marty Rhodes Figley

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

In case you were wondering what Santa Claus looks like in his undies, here you go!  This hilarious story explains what transpires when santa can’t find his favorite Christmas eve underwear.

Dear Santa by Rod Campbell

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

Engage your child in reading with you! This lift the flap board book is perfect for your youngest readers this season.

Guess Who’s Coming to Santa’s for Dinner by Tommie dePaola

Our 12 favorite santa books are perfect for your holiday or Christmas lesson plans or at home with your children. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.22

An interesting look into the other facets of Santa and Mrs. Claus’ life, this story tells us what shenanigans happen when the whole Claus family gets together.

Santa’s Toy Shop by Al Dempster

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

Originally published in 1950, the Little Golden Book Santa’s Toy Shop is a Christmas Classic!

Santa Duck by David Milgrim

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

Read this board book story to your little readers and find out what happens when a duck dresses up like Santa and hears the gift lists of all of his friends.

Goodnight Santa by Michelle Robinson

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

An excellent bedtime book for Christmas eve or any night, Goodnight Santa tells a rhyming story of two siblings going to bed on Christmas eve.

Oh, What a Christmas by Michael Garland

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

A somewhat familiar story of a Santa with no way to deliver presents, meets an interesting twist when he stumbles upon a barn full of helpful animals!

To see all book lists featured on A Dab of Glue Will Do, click here. Do you have any favorite Santa books that are not on the list? If so, please share in the comments below.

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.

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  1. Jean Reagan says

    November 22, 2016 at 6:54 pm

    Hey, thanks for including my book, HOW TO CATCH SANTA! Your post put a smile on my face. 🙂

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  2. Fidelia Mcclinsey says

    April 24, 2022 at 3:54 pm

    I am curious to find out what blog platform you’re utilizing? I’m having some minor security problems with my latest website and I would like to find something more safeguarded. Do you have any solutions?

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