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10 best books like A Pussycat's Christmas (Margaret Wise Brown): Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve?, I'll Be Home For Christmas, The Dolls' Christmas, Night Tree, The Trees of the Dancing Goats, Cobweb Christmas: The Tradition of Tinsel, Paddington Bear and the Christmas Surprise, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, Lucia and the Light, Snow

Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve?
AuthorJan Brett
ISBN0399238735
Every year, trolls knock down Kyri's door and gobble up her Christmas feast. But this year, the trolls are in for a surprise: a boy and his pet ice bear on their way to Oslo have come in from the cold. And once the ice bear is finished with the trolls, you can bet they won't come knocking next Christmas Eve!

Once...
I'll Be Home For Christmas
AuthorHolly Hobbie
ISBN1844280012
Loving piggy pals Toot and Puddle are back--well, actually, Toot isn't back yet. As in Holly Hobbie's earlier Toot and Puddle, Toot has the travel bug while Puddle contentedly tends the home fires. In his postcard from Scotland, Toot promises to be home for Christmas. But ice storms and delayed flights...
The Dolls' Christmas
AuthorTasha Tudor
ISBN0689828098
Christmas is a special time at Pumpkin House, where two dolls named Sethany Ann and Nicey Melinda live. Every Christmas they invite their friends to join them for an elegant dinner party and a marionette show. The dolls have fun getting ready for their party: they send out invitations to their guests...
Night Tree
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0152001212
I got this on the title. I didn't know it was a Christmas book. So Christmas in August. I'm as bad as the Retail stores. You can't skip Halloween. Anyway.

This book was such a surprise. I didn't know anything about it and that's how you want to be. Don't read any more reviews where they might give away...
The Trees of the Dancing Goats
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN0689838573
Trisha loves the eight days of Hanukkah, when her mother stays home from work, her Babushka makes delicious potato latkes, and her Grampa carves wonderful animals out of wood as gifts for Trisha and her brother. In the middle of her family's preparation for the festival of lights, Trisha visits her closest...
Cobweb Christmas: The Tradition of Tinsel
AuthorShirley Climo
ISBN0060290331
This beautiful picture book about the warmth and wonder of Christmas and the origin of tinsel on trees will leave children enchanted with the magical possibilities of the season.

Everybody loves Christmas at Tante's. The old lady decorates a wonderful tree and makes certain to have something...
Paddington Bear and the Christmas Surprise
AuthorMichael Bond
ISBN0064435954
Christmas is coming, and Paddington has saved just enough bun money to take the entire Brown family to Barkridges store for a holiday adventure. But things don't turn out at all as Paddington had planned...and Barkridges may never be the same! Leave it to Paddington, that beloved bear from Darkest Peru,...
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
AuthorRussell Hoban
ISBN0819304042
Emmet and his Ma are having a tough time of it scrapping by in Frogtown Hollow. With his Dad's trusty toolbox Emmet tries to earn as much money as he can to supplement his Ma's income from taking in wash. But they both want nothing more then to make the coming Christmas special for the other. In a refashioning...
Lucia and the Light
AuthorPhyllis Root
ISBN0763622966
Luminously illustrated by Mary GrandPre, a timeless adventure from master storyteller Phyllis Root about the loss of the sun - and one girl's brave quest to find it.
In a cozy cabin high in the mountains of the Far North, Lucia and her family live a snug and contented life. But one day the wind screams...
Snow
AuthorManya Stojic
ISBN0375923489
Winter is coming to the north woods and the animals are all getting ready for the first big snow. The owl hears the wind whistle, but the moose sees the first flakes. Now the geese know it is time to fly south, and the bear knows it is time for sleep. Then it snows and snows and snows. Every flake is different....
When Winter Comes
AuthorNancy Van Laan
ISBN0689817789
As bland as the snow.

Very repetitive. I certainly couldn't read this to my kid because it would drive me crazy.

Every other page is, “Where, oh where does the X go/When winter comes and the cold winds blow?” And then it says where it goes. It's in rhyme. It's all about the different...
Shall I Knit You a Hat?: A Christmas Yarn
AuthorKate Klise
After Mother Rabbit makes a special hat for Little Rabbit, he convinces her to knit hats for all their friends - hats that fit each of their uniquely-shaped noggins.



That Mother Rabbit is one super-knitter!

The illustrations are by Klise's sister. At first glance, I didn't...
Dragon's Merry Christmas
AuthorDav Pilkey
ISBN0439548489
Award-winning author/illustrator of the Captain Underpants series, Dav Pilkey's gentle blue Dragon (from the hit TV series) will charm beginning readers with his delightful Christmas adventures!

Dragon tries to make Christmas special each year. He picks the perfect tree and buys the...
Silent Night
AuthorJoseph Mohr
ISBN0060787430
Silent Night, illustrated by Susan Jeffers.

The classic Christmas carol Silent Night - "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht" in the original, it was composed by an Austrian priest named Joseph Mohr, set to music by local schoolmaster and oragnist Franz Xaver Gruber, and first performed in Oberndorf...
The Christmas Quiet Book
AuthorDeborah Underwood
ISBN0547558635
Even though I thoroughly enjoyed The Quiet Book and The Loud Book!, and I’d had this one recommended to me by at least one Goodreads’ friend, I wasn’t planning to read it any time soon, but when I was at the library yesterday, there is was sitting on one of the featured shelves, and so I grabbed it and...
The Mouse Before Christmas
AuthorMichael Garland
ISBN0142300055
Written to the rythmn of The Night Before Christmas, this story chronicles the adventures of a small mouse that sneaks into Santa's pack and is able to travel around the world with Santa.

We loved the illustration that shows him traveling past the Sphinx, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Eiffel...
Santa's Book of Names
AuthorDavid McPhail
ISBN0316115347
Illustrated throughout with stunning watercolor nightscapes of snowy winter scenes, Santa's Book of Names depicts all the warmth and spirit of this special time of year in a story about a young boy who learns to read with Santa's help. David McPhail's inspirational holiday story emphasizes the importance...
Moonlight: The Halloween Cat
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN0060297123
Softly padding through the darkness, Moonlight explores the world on her favorite night, Halloween.

The town and countryside glow with shining stars. The wide yellow moon lights pumpkins, racoons, and children out having fun. . . .

Told in eloquently simple, lyrical words, with...
Mortimer's Christmas Manger
AuthorKarma Wilson
ISBN0689855117
Mortimer's a little mouse,
He longs so much for his own house.
He now resides inside a hole
That's dark and damp
Without a soul.

Each day he looks for crumbs and bits
And spots a little house that fits.
The house is high
He starts to climb
He reaches it in record...
Fletcher and the Snowflake Christmas
AuthorJulia Rawlinson
ISBN0061990337
I’m thinking no Fletcher book will ever match Fletcher and the Falling Leaves but I do think I enjoyed this one more than Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms. It’s a sweet Christmas story, a fine enough story for this Fletcher series, and I loved the illustrations.

Fletcher, always helpful,...
A Wish to Be a Christmas Tree
AuthorColleen Monroe
ISBN1585360023
It's interesting - sometimes we can wish and hope for something ignoring who and what we really are. This very old Christmas tree longed to be picked for a tree. It was so sad. It was giving up as it knew it was too big to be a Christmas tree now.

Well, the animals loved that old tree and they appreciated...
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