Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Categories: Parenting & Families , Children's Books
Christmas is just around the corner! The bad news is you have less than three weeks to wrap up your shopping. The good news is the library has added some fabulous Christmas titles to our children’s collection- and checking them out is free!
Priscilla and the Great Santa Search by Nathaniel Hobbie
Priscilla and her best friend Bettina set out on cross-country skis to find the North Pole and the real Santa Claus.
Santa Paws by Jane GerverPuppies chase kittens, kittens chase mice.
Have you been naughty or have you been nice?
Hurry! Hurry! Have You Heard? By Laura Melmed
After a baby is born in a stable, a small bird spreads the news of his birth throughout the countryside, and all sorts of woodland animals come to welcome the infant.
I'm Not Santa! By Jonathan Allen
Allen continues his amusing series about the ridiculously cute Baby Owl who in previous outings has declared himself "not cute!" and "not scared!" (2006, 2007). In this third offering, Baby Owl is wearing a Santa hat and pulling his stuffed-owl toy on a sled. Enter Baby Hare, who decides that Baby Owl must be Santa.
Merry Christmas, Ollie! By Olivier Dunrea
The five goslings, each wearing a different hat, wait anxiously in snowy fields for the arrival of Father Christmas Goose.
A Very Marley Christmas by John Grogan
With all the excitement of Christmas approaching, it's no surprise that Marley, the lovable pup with a nose for trouble, wants to get in on the action. Anticipating his very first snowfall and Santa's arrival, Marley jumps in to help his family every way he can. But Marley, being Marley, always ends up on the wrong side of right.
Christmas Cookies: Bite-Size Holiday Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Rosenthal and Dyer follow up their popular collaboration, Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons (2006), with this delightful sequel, which uses the same format to introduce concepts and feelings set in kitchen vignettes, this time during the Christmas season.
The Lump of Coal by Lemony Snicket
I’ll leave it to Mr. Snicket himself to describe his latest book. This is a story about a lump of coal who can think, talk, and move itself around. Is there a more charming holiday tale to behold? Probably, but Lemony Snicket has not written one.
