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10 best books like The Legend of Holly Claus (Brittney Ryan): The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Shadow Castle, The Christmas Magic, A Wish for Wings That Work: An Opus Christmas Story, The Trees of the Dancing Goats, Auntie Claus and the Key to Christmas, The Hangman in the Mirror, Christmas Treasury, Kringle, Princess of the Wild Swans

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
AuthorL. Frank Baum
ISBN0517205793
Every child knows about Santa Claus, the jolly man who brings gifts to all on Christmas. There are many stories that tell of his life, but the delightful version relayed in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is by far the most charming and original of all. Only L. Frank Baum, the man who created the wonderful...
Shadow Castle
AuthorMarian Cockrell
ISBN0595092969
In the middle of a deep forest is an enchanted valley and a castle where only shadows live, shadows of kings and queens who have waited for hundreds of years for the spell cast upon them to be broken. One day, a girl named Lucy follows a little dog through a tunnel into the valley and meets the mysterious red-haired...
The Christmas Magic
AuthorLauren Thompson
ISBN0439774977
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...
A Wish for Wings That Work: An Opus Christmas Story
AuthorBerkeley Breathed
ISBN0316106917
I've read and loved this book for as long as I can remember. It's probably one of the finest Christmas stories ever written, with the whole unlikely hero angle being worked to a frenzy. It's not something I can say I expect when I read Mr. Breathed's work, though I'm coming to realize that maybe I should....
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...
Auntie Claus and the Key to Christmas
AuthorElise Primavera
ISBN0152024417
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...
The Hangman in the Mirror
AuthorKate Cayley
ISBN1554513561
"A strong-willed 16-year-old girl fights for survival in 18th-century North America. "

Francoise Laurent has never had an easy life. The only surviving child of a destitute washerwoman and wayward soldier, she must rely only on herself to get by. When her parents die suddenly from the smallpox...
Christmas Treasury
AuthorJan Brett
ISBN0399237410
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...
Kringle
AuthorTony Abbott
ISBN0439749425
Just in time for Christmas comes a fantasy epic from one of today's most popular writers for children. It is the story of a young orphan realizing his destiny -- to become the legendary Kris Kringle.

Unlike the traditional Santa Claus myth, KRINGLE is a coming-of-age story about an orphan who...
Princess of the Wild Swans
AuthorDiane Zahler
ISBN0062004921
Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Wild Swans,” this enchanting fantasy by Diane Zahler, author of The Thirteenth Princess and A True Princess, is a tale of family, bravery . . . and a terrible spell.

Princess Meriel’s brothers have been cursed. An evil enchantment cast by their...
The Snow Princess
AuthorRuth Sanderson
ISBN0316779822
I love to read picture books, mainly for their illustrations. Ruth Sanderson's illustrations are always exceptional. Here, she knocks this out of the park because this is full of magic and the most amazing illustrations.

As for the story, this has a happier ending compared to the story I knew...
The Lady and the Lion: A Brothers Grimm Tale
AuthorJacqueline K. Ogburn
ISBN0803726511
Love and honor can overcome even the fiercest obstacles, as we see in this spellbinding fairy tale, with shades of "Beauty and the Beast." To save her father, a young woman must go to the castle of a menacing lion. She fears for her life, but finds kindness rather than danger there, for the lion by day is a...
The World's Best Fairy Tales
AuthorBelle Becker Sideman
ISBN0895770784
Contents
Jorinda and Joringel
Puss in Boots
The Emperor's New Clothes
Billy Beg and His Bull
Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes
The Red Shoes
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Snegourka, the Snow Maiden
The Three Little Pigs
The Shoemaker and...
A Small Miracle
AuthorPeter Collington
ISBN0679887253
This is a Christmas miracle like no other, with such richness in image and
story that children will return to it again and again" "(Booklist,"
starred review).
The wooden figures in a Christmas crè che come to life to save a poor old
woman in this truly original, deeply moving contemporary...
What Once Was Lost
AuthorStormy Glenn
ISBN1619263726
[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Futuristic Sci-Fi Romance, M/M, shape-shifters]

Mo doesn't know what to do with Mykel. He's new to the future he's living in and doesn't understand half of what people tell him, let alone show him. When Mykel insists that they are mates, Mo's set...
Why Christmas Trees Aren't Perfect
AuthorRichard H. Schneider
ISBN0687453631
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...
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...
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 Twelve Days of Christmas
AuthorLaurel Long
ISBN0803733577
The astounding talent of Laurel Long brings this beloved song to life with breathtaking style. Set against a lush countryside, each day brings a new gift elegantly rendered. And like in the verses of the song, the previous gifts are repeated in every illustration, giving this striking artwork a hidden...
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...
Sylvie and the Songman
AuthorTim Binding
ISBN0385751575
A compelling story full of magic and music.

Sylvie Bartram lives alone with Mr. Jackson the dog and her eccentric composer father, who invents strange and wonderful musical instruments. One day she returns from school to find a message left in toothpaste on the bathroom mirror: her father...
Beneath the Waves
AuthorT. Kierei
ISBN9781502572
After being a researcher for over six years, Parker finds himself in a very awkward situation when he decides to visit one of his friends, a long-time fisherman named Kenton, and ends up in way over his head. He had intended for it to just be a short visit before heading home to start dinner but luck hadn't...
Shepherds, Why This Jubilee?
AuthorJeffrey R. Holland
ISBN1573458635
Too often our Christmas season is filled with such questions as "What do you want for Christmas?" or "What do you mean it is sold out?" or "Did decorating the tree take this long last year?" only to find that when the season has come and gone a more vital question remains: "Is that all there is to Christmas?"
In...
The Christmas Chronicles: The Legend of Santa Claus
AuthorTim Slover
ISBN0553808109
In this new holiday classic, Tim Slover crafts a marvelous, magical novel about how Santa Claus became the man he is today. After reading The Christmas Chronicles, you’ll believe all over again in the magic of the season.
 
Snow is falling, and the clock ticks toward midnight on Christmas...
Leepike Ridge
AuthorN.D. Wilson
ISBN0375838732
Before he wrote the bestselling 100 Cupboards trilogy and Ashtown Burials series, N. D. Wilson delighted readers with his first unforgettable action-adventure story of survival. . . .
 
Thomas Hammond has always lived next to Leepike Ridge, but he never imagined he might end up lost beneath...
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