Christmas
Reads for Kids
Thanks to Scholastic
I have gathered my favourite new release reads from Scholastic and
compiled them in a list to share with you. I believe Christmas books are a
great way to better help your child to understand the meaning of Christmas and
also just to bond with your child.
Reading in general is great to do with your child, as they will
learn what letters look like, then even words, they will also learn new words
that are not in the vocabulary. It is important to allow your child to ask
questions, so if you are halfway through a sentence and your child interrupts
don’t cut them off as the chances are they have a great learning question for
you.
Ok so here are a few books that I have found that are great reads
with beautiful images (as always with Scholastic.)
My Merry Christmas- Rosie Smith and Bruce Whatley
$16.99
This is a storybook about how wild animals celebrate Christmas and
share the joys of the festive season together.
The first thing I love with this book is the pages are not
overwhelmed by words and only had a sentence to each double page.
The story itself is very short and great for those younger children
with a short attention span. The images go into great detail so with not many
words on each page there is more time to talk about the images with your child.
Blossom
Possum and the Christmas Quacker
Gina
Newton and Christina Booth
$19.99
First impressions really last and looking at the front cover of this
book you will notice it has an Aussie feel to it with a possum and a Santa on
his sleigh being pulled by kangaroos instead of reindeers.
This is super cute and a real play with words, our Aussie version of
Santa Clause is of course none other then Koala Claws.
You will not find any snow in this book, after all our Aussie
Christmas’ never have any sign of snow and is usually really hot with a warm
shower or two.
The story is about all Koala Claws’ Aussie buddies helping him with
all things Christmas while also trying their hardest to wake Mr. Claws up so he
can get himself ready for Christmas. You
will be very surprise as to how they wake him up- I don’t want to give away too
much.
The drawings are amazing in this book and this one is probably my
favourite of the lot.
My
Christmas Crackers- Bronwen Davies
$9.99
Now this one is far from a story-book and is a book full of giggles;
this is of course a Little Ones Christmas Joke book.
This book reminds me of something I would have received from my
Aunty at Christmas time as she was always about books and of course making us
smile.
My girls both love this book as it has a sentence on each page but
is 23 pages long, which means they think they will get a lot longer awake time
when really it is only an extra 5 minutes or so haha.
There are amazing images on each page and hardly any bare page
(except for the snow and tiny white details.)
Here is one of the jokes that can be found in the book:
Who’s the
most famous of Santa’s helpers?
Elfvis.
We Wish
You A Ripper Christmas (includes CD)
Colin
Buchanan and Roland Harvey
$19.99
Gosh I love my Australian Christmas stories as they are unique to
our country and don’t contain snow or anything like that, and is something us
Aussies can relate to at Christmas. This book here is very much a true Aussie
Christmas Story set in the outback somewhere that you can sing along to. It is
an Aussie take on We Wish You a Merry Christmas and even has a CD that you can
sing along to- I love it!!
The paintings on each page are super cute and some of them even make
you giggle. My girls love this book and always ask me to read it to them when
they have a spare moment. This is right
up there with my favourite Christmas Reads also.
Where’s
Santa- Louis Shea
$15.99
This book Hayley has claimed as hers and lives in the car for those
long car trips that she gets easily bored on. It is a Christmas spot the Santa
book, very much like our loved Where’s Wally books except you need to find
Santa and friends not Wally.
There are over 600 things to spot in this book so will keep the kids
entertained and busy for ours, if not days.
I actually tried to find Santa in this book and in some of the pages
he is quite tricky to spot, my daughter has had this book for 2 months now and
is still trying to find all the things in there.
Great gift for those older kids you don’t know what to buy.
A
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie Christmas
Mark
Macleod & May Gibbs
$19.99
Since a child I have loved Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and even
remember getting dressed up as cuddlepie for a dress-up day we had at my
primary school, and I won best dressed out of the entire school.
So I was excited to share this with the girls and pass my love of
these two gumnut babies on to my girls.
The images are so well done, and you wouldn’t expect anything other
then perfect being drawn by May Gibbs- she is the original gumnut baby
illustrator and is no long with us.
This story is about the gumnut babies preparing for Christmas and counting
down the days until it arrived (it reminded me tad of the girls on how excited
they get for Christmas.)
So there it is guys, my pics on some awesome, super cute reads for
Christmas or even perfect children’s gifts for Christmas. I have purchased a
Christmas book for my daughter’s Kris Kringle.
