Our Winter book basket has come out of hiding. I love putting away seasonal books because when we get them out, it becomes so exciting to see and read them all over again. Here are some of our favorites and even one I don't recommend.
Peter and Lotta's Christmas by Elsa Beskow is a favorite. I found this last year in our local used book store. I nearly did a flip and screamed out loud when I found it. We do not live in a Waldorf community. Few that I've met have even heard of Waldorf so I was quite surprised to find this book. Nor have I found an Elsa Beskow book since, and you know I'm looking! Christmas in Noisy Village is a new favorite of ours though this book is very old. We found it at a local book swap for free and love it!
The Story of the Snow Children is one of Owen's favorites. He seems to especially love the Sibylle Von Olfers books we have. We love the quiet beauty and rhythm of The Tomten & The Tomten and the Fox books. In my opinion they are must haves!
The above smaller two books, The Night Before Christmas & The Gingerbread Man are classics and were mine and my brother's books when we were kids. My boys love them as much as I did. Country Christmas is a book I don't recommend. Though I love it! Why you ask?
Because it's horribly written and the illustrations are bad too but it's a scratch and sniff book! Remember those! And it still smells! My Mom found it for 25 cents. I love it because I'm quirky that way and how could Christmas be Christmas without a scratch and sniff ham I ask you? My boys will take it or leave it.
These are some lovely books that tell the Christmas story. Who is Coming to Our House is told from the point of view of the animals in the stable. It's a sweet book and perfect for toddlers. Santa's favorite Story is about Santa telling the woodland animals all about the first Christmas. My favorite line from this book is, "No, no, no" said Santa in a kindly voice, "Christmas hasn't got anything to do with me." Another favorite is This is the Stable. The words have a beautiful rhythm and the illustrations are so magical.
I love the ethereal wings that just seem to hug the stable.
There are many other favorites including all of the Jan Brett winter books, especially those about trolls! We usually find a few Winter books under the tree on Christmas morning. I hope to find Ollie's Ski Trip by Elsa Beskow and Winter by Gerda Muller.
What are your family's favorite winter books?
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Oh, I love your old books and new books and vintage books and ex-library books and books with yard sale tags on them. Your book collection looks a lot like ours!
ReplyDeleteMy children are still enthralled with our Thanksgiving books. I need to pull out our Advent and Christmas books soon.
I am a huge children's book lover and swoon over them way too much.
ReplyDeleteThe little red The Night Before Christmas book was also a childhood book of mine which sits in our seasonal basket as well.
Hi! New reader here! Love your blog. Gerda Muller's winter is my daughter's absolute favorite. She's 20 months. She loves to inspect every aspect of each page, so it takes much longer to "read" than a book with words. We also love Jan Brett, especially annie and the wild animals, and home for christmas.
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Our Christmas book basket came out yesterday, although it's separate from our winter book basket (each one has more than 20 books in the stack so we do the Christmas book basket from Thanksgiving until Christmas then the winter basket from Christmas until spring). I love the illustration on Santa's Favorite Christmas. I haven't seen that one before.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great list of books. Thank you ♥
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