Hi, Sweeteas,
Here’s a revised list (new titles!) of last year’s recommended JFIC holiday books. Ask Santa for some of these, or borrow them from your local library.
All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown by Sydney Taylor
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig
Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories by L.M. Montgomery
The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher
The Doldrums and the Helmsley Curse by Nicholas Gannon
Dreidels on the Brain by Joel ben Izzy
The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
Father Christmas and Me by Matt Haig
The Girl Who Saved Christmas by Matt Haig
Greenglass House by Kate Milford
Ghosts of Greenglass House by Kate Milford
The Golden Dreydl by Ellen Kushner
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmel and Trina Schart Hyman
Kringle by Tony Abbott
The Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clements
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
A Little House Christmas Treasury by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Lotterys More or Less by Emma Donoghue
The Naughty List by Michael Fry
The No-Good Nine by John Bemelmans Marciano
Nutcracked by Susan Adrian
The Nutcracker Mice by Kristin Kladstrup and Brett Helquist
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee
The Power of Light by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Santa’s Kwanzaa by Garen Eileen Thomas and Guy Francis
A Shiloh Christmas by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Top Elf by Caleb Zane Huett
Tru and Nelle: A Christmas Tale by G. Neri
The True Gift by Patricia MacLachlan
The Vanderbeekers of 141st St. by Karina Yan Glaser
When Santa Fell to Earth by Cornelia Funke
Winterfrost by Michelle Houts
Young Scrooge by R.L.Stine
Happy holidays and happy reading!
“Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?” ~from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
