Christmas at Eagle Pond

10 best books like Christmas at Eagle Pond (Donald Hall): The Father Christmas Letters, The Christmas Day Kitten, The Christmas Magic, Santa Claus the World's Number One Toy Expert, A Midnight Clear: Family Christmas Stories, Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found, The Trees of the Dancing Goats, The Joy of a Peanuts Christmas: 50 Years of Holiday Comics!, Christmas Treasury, Dragon's Merry Christmas

The Father Christmas Letters

Author	J.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN	0048231304

I'm not sure what I was expecting when I started reading this collection of letters that "Father Christmas" wrote to the Tolkien children from the 1920s to the end of the 1930s. What I discovered surprised me, and yet I couldn't help but nod my head and chuckle and think, "of course, of course!" When the...

The Christmas Day Kitten

Author	James Herriot
ISBN	0312097670

"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 Christmas Magic

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...

Santa Claus the World's Number One Toy Expert

Author	Marla Frazee
ISBN	0152049703

A lot of Santa books leave me cold, but Marla Frazee works magic with any subject she tackles, and this is no exception. Here, Santa wears a fantastic variety of...are these boxers? Shorts? Whatever they are, I love them - we see the seasons progress through the patterns on them, plus they make him instantly...

A Midnight Clear: Family Christmas Stories

Author	Katherine Paterson
ISBN	0142300373

Each Christmas Eve when John Paterson was a pastor, he read an original story to his congregation--a story that illuminated the true meaning of the holiday season, written by his wife, two-time Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson. Now you, too, can share them. Whether depicting a child coping with...

Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found

Author	Wayson Choy
ISBN	0312284152

From the author of the popular and widely acclaimed novel, The Jade Peony, comes this new autobiographical exploration of past and present, culture and selfhood, history and memory, immigration and family life--in other words, the modern-day collision of Eastern and Western experiences and worldviews.

Three...

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...

The Joy of a Peanuts Christmas: 50 Years of Holiday Comics!

Author

Charles M. Schulz

In this hilarious and joyful collection of classic comic strips, the PEANUTS gang gathers around the tree (and the doghouse) to celebrate the holiday season with family and friends—and you, too!

Millions of fans have learned, laughed and loved with Charles Schulz’s ageless characters,...

Christmas Treasury

Author	Jan Brett
ISBN	0399237410

Enjoy a multicultural celebration of the Christmas spirit with the renowned Jan Brett. This stellar volume holds seven of Jan Brett's gorgeous tales, all perfectly suited for the holiday. The Mitten, The Wild Christmas Reindeer, Trouble with Trolls, The Twelve Days of Christmas, The Hat, Christmas...

Dragon's Merry Christmas

Author	Dav Pilkey
ISBN	0439548489

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...

Take Joy

Author

Tasha 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 Christmas Scrapbook

Author	Philip Gulley
ISBN	0060736615

It's autumn in Harmony, and Pastor Sam Gardner has vowed to be ready for Christmas. Determined to redeem a dreadful history of gift giving, Sam enrolls in a scrapbooking class to make a Christmas gift his wife will never forget. However, Sam's absence from their home every Wednesday night, coupled with...

The True Gift: A Christmas Story

Author

Patricia MacLachlan

Patricia MacLachlan is a wonderful author. I actually didn't like the story, but I finished reading it through to the end because of her great story-telling; she has an incredible knack for sucking you in.

The story: A title like "The True Gift" shouldn't be bestowed on a story that is devoted...

Christmas Farm

Author	Mary Lyn Ray
ISBN	0152162909

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

Author	Toni Buzzeo
ISBN	0803730535

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

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...

The Christmas Violin

Author	Buffy Andrews
ISBN	1472054830

Can there ever be an encore to true love?

It used to be that the only woman he could think about was Camilla. When he closed his eyes it was her that he saw. But now, he saw Willow. And it scared him and made him feel guilty. And yet he couldn’t help himself, couldn’t help feeling what he was feeling…

The...

Snowbound for Christmas

Author

Annie Acorn

Hopeful that the back left tire on his truck will hold, Jack Branson begins the last leg of his long journey, desperate to reach his family’s farm and surprise them on Christmas Eve. Nature, though, has other plans for the returning serviceman this snow-filled Christmas. Needing to find shelter,...

A Christmas Tartan

Author	Paige Shelton
ISBN	1250132657

Christmastime has come to Scotland, and Delaney and all her coworkers at the Cracked Spine, the quirky bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh, are all in the holiday spirit. Between mugs of hot chocolate and nibbles of gingerbread, Delaney has been given the task of tracking down the provenance of a mysterious...

Christmas Sonata

Author	Gary Paulsen
ISBN	0330372769

A young boy and his mother spend Christmas 1943 with relatives in northern Minnesota while his father is fighting in the war in Europe.  They take a long journey by train to a snowy land of vast frozen lakes, deep and sparkling cold, and the most magical Christmas tree the boy has ever seen.  He knows...

The Christmas Child: A Story of Coming Home

Author	Max Lucado
ISBN	0849917689

A Chicago journalist finds himself in a small Texas town on Christmas eve. Lonely and alone, he encounters old faces and new facts…a hand carved manger, a father's guilt, a young girl's faith. The trip into the past holds his key to the future, and a scarlet cross shows him the way home.

This...

Christmas at the Dancing Duck

Author

Daisy James

A wonderfully festive romantic read to curl up with this Christmas. The most wonderful time of the year! Kirstie Harrison is finally coming home for the holidays. Ever since tragedy struck a few years ago, Christmas hasn’t felt the same – but she’s determined that this year will be different…And...

Angels in the Snow

Author

Melody Carlson

Claire Andrews is recently widowed and has lost her husband and only child. As a painter, her gift has been totally blocked by her grief. She decides to spend a couple of months during the holidays at an isolated cabin in the Cascade Mountains. As Claire walks the woods each day, she discovers two sets of...

An Amish Christmas: The Bakery

Author

Samantha Bayarr

An Amish Christmas is a wonderful fairytale love story written by Samantha Bayarr. It is the first of four stories in her Amish Bakery series. I enjoyed the storyline as well as the characters.

Noel and Hunter did not start out on a good foot. In fact Noel accused him of being a deceitful person...

A Tin Train Christmas (short story)

Author

Melanie Lageschulte

From the author of the heartwarming novels "Growing Season" and "Harvest Season" comes this old-fashioned story of family and faith to brighten your holidays! The toy train in the catalog was everything two young boys could ask for: colorful, shiny, and the perfect vehicle for their wild imaginations....