A Small Miracle
10 best books like A Small Miracle (Peter Collington): The Christmas Magic, Peter Spier's Christmas!, Nine Days to Christmas: A Story of Mexico, The Donkey's Dream, The Trees of the Dancing Goats, Auntie Claus and the Key to Christmas, Great Joy, The Snow Rabbit, Holly Claus: The Christmas Princess, Mirror
| Author | Lauren Thompson |
| ISBN | 0439774977 |
Far, far North, when the nights are longest and the stars shine brightest, Santa begins to prepare for his big night of giving. He gathers his reindeer, feeds them parsnips and berries, and polishes his bells and his sled. Then lovingly, he chooses toys for every child in the world. For Santa loves them...
| Author | Peter Spier |
| ISBN | 0440412854 |
4.5 STARS
A wordless picture book that details the preparations for, celebration of, and results of Christmas. Love the details, and so much of this book is very warm and happy. I saw many of our Christmas traditions reflected in these illustrations. I must say the ending felt a little bittersweet,...
Nine Days to Christmas: A Story of Mexico
| Author | Marie Hall Ets |
| ISBN | 0140544429 |
This is part of my Wintertime tales. It is a Christmas story and it's a very different kid of Christmas story. It takes place in a village in Mexico. It is about, Ceci, a little girl gets her very own pinata for her first Posadas. These are special Christmas parties 8 days before Christmas, one per day at a...
| Author | Barbara Helen Berger |
| ISBN | 0399212337 |
A beautifully illustrated story of the Nativity. He was just an ordinary donkey, but on his back he carried a miracle. He carried the Virgin Mary to Bethlehem on the night she gave birth. Along the way he dreamed he was carrying a city, a ship, a fountain, and a rose. He dreamed he was carrying a lady full...
The Trees of the Dancing Goats
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0689838573 |
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...
Auntie Claus and the Key to Christmas
| Author | Elise Primavera |
| ISBN | 0152024417 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
Elise Primavera returns with an adventurous companion to her beloved holiday book, Auntie Claus. This time, Santa's big sister is back with a lesson for her grand-nephew Christopher Kringle.
When Christopher hears from the Spam twins that Santa Claus is...
| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
| ISBN | 0763629200 |
In her first picture book, America’s beloved storyteller Kate DiCamillo reunites with Bagram Ibatoulline to offer readers an unforgettable holiday gift.
It is just before Christmas when an organ grinder and monkey appear on the street corner outside Frances’s apartment. Frances can see...
| Author | Camille Garoche |
| ISBN | 1592701817 |
Two sisters look longingly through their window at the snowy sky. One goes out and sculpts a little rabbit, but when she brings it back inside to her wheelchair-bound sister, it begins to melt. So they take it outside and into the forest where enchanted things begin to happen. A follow up to her hauntingly...
Holly Claus: The Christmas Princess
| Author | Brittney Ryan |
| ISBN | 0061440221 |
Many creative but unexplained plot details (similar to Sleeping Beauty). Fun illustrations, but poorly written. The website is more than ten years old and does nothing.
Begins in December 1878 with Christopher's letter. Santa's wife is Viviana, and their wish for a child (Holly) comes true....
Stunning in its simplicity and grace, Mirror is visual tour-de-force that requires no words to tell its universal tale. Author and illustrator Suzy Lee masterfully creates a world where a little girl explores and dances — at first cautiously, later exuberantly — with her reflection in the mirror....
| Author | Alastair Reid |
| ISBN | 1590173201 |
What can words be, or rather, what can’t they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous waywardness of words in Ounce Dice Trice, a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words...
| Author | John McCutcheon |
| ISBN | 1561453749 |
Decided this would be a good read for Christmas Eve and I was right! This is one of my favorite Christmas stories and it’s really touching and emotional (I mean the real Christmas truce story that this book is about, not the Robot Chicken version, though if you haven’t seen that, look it up, it’s great!).
What’s...
| Author | Barbara Lehman |
| ISBN | 0618581251 |
I like this wordless picture book tale of a class visit to an art museum, where a boy gets separated from his class and enters a room where there are drawings of mazes. (The art museum itself seems a kind of maze, too.) He enters some of these mazes and successfully traverses them and wins a medal, (for some...
| Author | Trinka Hakes Noble |
| ISBN | 1585362700 |
A frontier family loves their sweet apple tree. They live in the barn with their animals. That’s living close to nature. There is a huge blizzard before Christmas that takes down their wonderful apple tree and the girls are very sad. They spend much time playing in the tree. The girls end up having a good...
| Author | Gregory Rogers |
| ISBN | 1596432675 |
A comic romp through Shakespeare's London featuring an intrepid little boy, a friendly bear, and-in the role of dastardly villain-the Bard himself.
What happens when a boy bursts through the curtain of a deserted theatre and onto the world's most famous stage? He lands on the Bard himself...
| Author | Bill Thomson |
| ISBN | 1477847006 |
When a boy and his dog go for a hike, the boy trips on a fossil, and it comes to life, revealing an ancient plant. The boy is so intrigued that he breaks two more fossils that come to life—a dragonfly and a pteranodon. When these prehistoric creatures collide with present reality, the boy must figure out...
| Author | Richard H. Schneider |
| ISBN | 0687453631 |
I thought this was going to be an inspirational, heart-warming tale to show readers that perfection doesn’t exist and flaws are okay, something like that. It wasn’t what I thought it was going to be, and it’s always deflating when books don’t meet your expectations.
There was way too...
| Author | David Rubel |
| ISBN | 0375869220 |
This new classic Christmas gift book "brings together two great traditions: the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and the neighbor-helping-neighbor program of Habitat for Humanity." Opening in Depression-era New York City, The Carpenter's Gift tells the story of eight-year-old Henry and his...
| Author | Arthur Geisert |
| ISBN | 1592700985 |
A gorgeously rendered wordless tale of discovery and adventure that is meticulous in architectural detail and bursts with inventiveness. Arthur Geisert's ingenuity engages the child's imagination as well as the adult's through seamless storytelling and zany wit. Invested as always in his porcine...
| Author | Olivier Dunrea |
| ISBN | 0399245065 |
Christmas is coming. In the craggy rocks on the snowy mountainside, tiny Pyn has her heart set on decorating her very first Christmas tree. But, "No Christmas tree," Papa says. Still, Pyn won't take no for an answer. She knows that a Christmas tree is just the thing their cottage needs to make the season...
| Author | Birdie Black |
| ISBN | 0763661740 |
3.5 STARS
A cute story along the lines of "one man's trash is another's treasure" though I think the similar Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree is the superior book. Here we start with a king shopping in the market for fabric for a robe for his daughter (seems a rather unlikely scenario, but I'll go...
| Author | Hisako Aoki |
| ISBN | 0689817231 |
Last Christmas Eve, our church librarian, was visiting her daughter’s church and heard their children’s director read Santa’s Favorite Story: Santa Tells the Story of the First Christmas by Hisako Aoki. She liked it so much that you can now find a copy in our library! In the book, Ivan Ganteschev’s...
| Author | Sara Varon |
| ISBN | 0439634067 |
Friendship has never been sweeter with this charming picture book by emerging artist Sara Varon.
Cat comes to the big city to stay with best friend, Chicken. The city is exciting (and there's so much to do!) but after a while Cat pines for the country with its trees and bright colors. Chicken takes...
| Author | Max Lucado |
| ISBN | 1400301300 |
A lamb with a crippled leg, a young carpenter with an unusual gift, and an angel with a heavenly song. This special boxed set contains these classic Christmas stories and a beautifully crafted ornament inspired by The Crippled Lamb.Jacob is a young boy who learns a powerful lesson from his carpentry...
