![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe you’ll find a title or two you want to add to your collection… But here I wanted to share a few of our favorite Christmas books that are a bit rarer. And I hope your bookshelf contains The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey and One Wintry Night. I’m sure we all share a love for Dickens’ classic The Christmas Carol (please tell me you own the beautiful Radio Theatre rendition! ). We’re going to put aside all our other read-alouds and immerse ourselves in the stories of the season. So this year, I got out the box of Christmas books when we turned the calendar to November. See my disclosure policy here.īut we have more Christmas books than there are days of Advent.Īnd I’m always sad that we never have time to read them all between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This post may contain affiliate links through which Club31Women might get a small compensation – with no additional cost to you. (And if we’re going “over the river and through the woods” to my parents’ house, I usually end up deciding that the nativity scene is the one and only decor box we’re going to unpack for the year.) ![]() I’m the kind of person who puts off decorating for Christmas until the very last minute. ![]()
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