Books are wonderful to share aloud any time. But these books are especially fun to read in December. In this list, I didn’t include well known classics like The Polar Express or The Grinch Who Stole Christmas by tried to give you some of my favourite titles that you might not know yet:

• The Teachers’ Night Before Christmas by Layne, Steven L.
• You Are Stardust, Kelsey, Elin
• Yetsa’s Sweater, Olsen, Sylvia
• The True Story of Santa Claus, Walters, Christina
• How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah? by Jane Yolen
• My Name Is Blessing, Walters, Eric
• Emma’s Cold Day, Ruurs, Margriet 
• When Santa Was a Baby, Bailey, Linda
• Christmas, From Solstice to Santa by Nikki Tate & Dani Tate-Stratton
• Island Santa by Sheryl McFarlane
• Amos’s Sweater by Lunn, Janet
• Little Crooked Christmas Tree by Michael Cutting 
• Stone Fox by Gardiner, John Reynolds
• Angel Mae: A Tale Of Trotter Street by Shirley Hughes
• Christmas, Dick Bruna
• Children of the Yukon by Harrison, Ted
• Owl Moon by Yolen, Jane 
• Thomas’ Snowsuit by Munsch, Robert
• Baseball Bats for Christmas by Kusugak, Michael Arvaarluk
• Peter Spier’s Christmas! by Spier, Peter
• Gifts by Bogart, Jo Ellen
• Wombat Divine by Fox, Mem
• Letters from Father Christmas, J. R.R. Tolkien
• The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski
• Thank You, Santa by Margaret Wild
• The Baker’s Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale by Aaron Shepard

And finally a novel: Alphabet of Dreams by Susan Fletcher.  One of the novels I most admire for writing style and research. This is the incredible tale of two children who travel along with the three kings on their way to Bethlehem. A book that adults will enjoy as much as older teens.