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10 best books like Apple Tree Christmas (Trinka Hakes Noble): The Christmas Day Kitten, The Story of Holly and Ivy, Peter Spier's Christmas!, The Donkey's Dream, Night Tree, The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story, Christmas In The Country, Uncle Vova's Tree, Shall I Knit You a Hat?: A Christmas Yarn, Take Joy

The Christmas Day Kitten
AuthorJames Herriot
ISBN0312097670
"Christmas can never go by without my remembering a certain little cat."

So begins The Christmas Day Kitten, another true story from James Herriot's rich experience as a country vet. As always, the tale includes a vivid group of characters on two legs and four: Mrs. Pickering and her three stately...
The Story of Holly and Ivy
AuthorRumer Godden
ISBN0670062197
Ivy, Holly, and Mr. and Mrs. Jones all have one Christmas wish. Ivy, an orphan, wishes for a real home and sets out in search of the grandmother she's sure she can find. Holly, a doll, wishes for a child to bring her to life. And the Joneses wish more than anything for a son or daughter to share their holiday....
Peter Spier's Christmas!
AuthorPeter Spier
ISBN0440412854
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,...
The Donkey's Dream
AuthorBarbara Helen Berger
ISBN0399212337
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...
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 Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story
AuthorGloria Houston
ISBN0140558772
This is a sweet story that children will love at Christmas time, and the illustrations are really great.

A little girl named Ruthie is picked to be the angel at the Christmas play, but she has no angel costume to wear. Her father is away from home in a war that is across the sea, which has created a...
Christmas In The Country
AuthorCynthia Rylant
This loving celebration of Christmas is as fresh as the season's first snowfall, and as warm as a steaming mug of eggnog. A young girl growing up in the country enjoys a simple but enchanting Christmas with her family. Boxes of treasured homemade ornaments are brought out; an evergreen wreath brightens...
Uncle Vova's Tree
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN0399216170
A holiday favorite from Patricia Polacco is now available again, to her fans' delight. Based on Polacco's childhood memories, this is the story of her Great-uncle Vladimir, known as Vova, and his colorful and inventive celebrations of the Russian Orthodox holiday of Epiphany. Polacco's art warmly...
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...
Take Joy
AuthorTasha Tudor
Every year I try to find one book and one CD of music to add to our Christmas collection. I try to find something we will want to read over and over again, or listen to every year. Unlike "The Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote (bleah!), which I found recommended in a children's catalog (see my review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/......
The Carpenter's Gift: A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Center Tree
AuthorDavid Rubel
ISBN0375869220
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...
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...
Christmas Farm
AuthorMary Lyn Ray
ISBN0152162909
When Wilma decides that her garden needs a new beginning, she gathers string, scissors, shovels, sixty-two dozen balsam seedlings, and Parker, her five-year-old neighbor. Year after year, Wilma and Parker nurture their trees, keeping careful count of how many they plant, how many perish, and how...
Lighthouse Christmas
AuthorToni Buzzeo
ISBN0803730535
From the author of the 2013 Caldecott Honor Book, ONE COOL FRIEND!

Frances is determined to make Christmas jolly for her younger brother, even if it means joining family on the mainland and leaving Papa behind on their isolated lighthouse island. After all, would Santa even know how to find...
A Christmas Tree for Pyn
AuthorOlivier Dunrea
ISBN0399245065
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...
How Santa Got His Job
AuthorStephen Krensky
ISBN0689846681
Have you ever wondered what Santa did before he was Santa?
When Santa was young and needed a job, no one was looking for a man in a red suit to deliver gifts on Christmas. So Santa tried just about everything -- from a chimney sweep to a postman to a circus performer. But none of these worked out. It wasn't...
The Night of Las Posadas
AuthorTomie dePaola
ISBN0698119010
Tomie dePaola's glorious paintings are as luminous as the farolitos that light up on the Plaza in Santa Fe for the procession of Las Posadas, the tradition in which Mary and Joseph go from door to door seeking shelter at the inn on Christmas Eve.This year Sister Angie, who is always in charge of the clebration,...
You Are My Miracle
AuthorMaryann Cusimano Love
ISBN0399240373
From the creators of You Are My I Love You, a traditional and heartwarming Christmas book for new mothers, fathers, and their little miracles of joy.

Nothing beats the magic of time spent between parent and child, and perhaps no time is more magical than Christmas. Presented in gentle rhymes...
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