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I love reading to my son and he enjoys books just as much as I do. Once again, I plan on reading some of the best holiday books to him for 25 days through Christmas.
Reading every night is our routine. Sometimes Rion tries to flip the pages before I can read the page to him. Often times I am just reading aloud to him as he plays with a car or some other small toy, especially for the longer books.
I started this tradition last year of reading to my son a different holiday themed book leading up to Christmas Day. On Christmas Day he will open a new holiday book and we read together that night.
I carefully chose books I can continue to read to him for the next few years.
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Here’s my list of 25 holiday books for toddlers for every night leading up to Christmas and Christmas Day.
25 Christmas Holiday Books For Toddlers
- The Littlest Elf by Brandi Dougherty
- Frosty The Snowman by Diane Muldrow
- Little Blue Truck’s Christmas by Alice Schertle
- The Itsy Bitsy Snowman by Jeffrey Burton
- Christmas Parade by Sandra Boynton
- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer by Rick Bunsen
- The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
- On The Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman
- Merry Christmas, Daniel Tiger! by Angela C. Santomero
- Llama Llama Jingle Bells by Anna Dewdney
- How To Catch Santa by Jean Regan
- A Charlie Brown Christmas by Tina Gallo
- How The Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
- Corduroy’s Christmas Surprise by Don Freeman
- Mickey Saves Santa by Disney Book Group
- Bob by Sandra Boynton
- The Littlest Christmas Tree by R.A. Herman
- Merry Christmas (Touch and Feel) by Roger Priddy
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Christmas 123 by Eric Carle
- Merry Christmas, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff
- Is It Christmas Yet? by Jane Chapman
- Eight Jolly Reindeer by Ilanit Oliver
- Can You Say It Too? Jingle! Jingle! by Nosy Crow
- The Night Before Christmas by Charles Santore
- God Gave Us Christmas by Lisa Tawn Bergen
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Do you have a holiday reading tradition with your children? Share your holiday favorites below!
Such a great list this is. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you!
We have most of these books and my whole family enjoys reading them in December. I have not heard of Is it Christmas yet. I will have to check it out.
That’s awesome that you have so many!
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I’ve been toying with the idea of a book advent calendar but wasn’t sure I could come up with 25 Christmas related books… this is perfect, thank you!
Awesome!
Thanks for sharing! This is such a great idea, I see some books I need to get my hands on.
Awesome!
Love this list! Having a tradition of getting a new Christmas book each year is a great ideas
Thank you!
I was just looking into board books for the holidays for my site. You have a great list! We may or may not have already started with some Christmas books in our house…
I don’t think it’s too early to start Christmas!
What a great list! I will be doing a 25 days of christmas books with my children this year leading up to christmas night. Thanks for some great ideas!
Thank you 🙂 It’s a fun tradition to start!
I love Corduroy’s Christmas! 🙂 These are are greats books! Some I’ll have to go check out!
I’m so glad you like the list!
Such a great list! Our little ones love reading their holiday books and get so excited to see them each year. I will have to add some new ones after seeing this. Thank you!
Thank you 🙂
thanks! this is a great gift list too for my nephew and niece!
Thank you!
What a great collection! I have to get something out of it for my little one!
Thank you!
This is a fantastic list! I am unfamiliar with some of these titles and will need to check them out. Our little one loves books too!
Thank you!
Great list! My girls recently fell in love with Daniel Tiger, so I’ll have to get that book for them. I let my girls pick the book we read to them every night, but during the holidays I make sure we read “What is Christmas?” at least once a week.
Oh they’ll love the Daniel Tiger book!
Great list! Some of these are family favorites and some are new ones that I’ll have to check out!
Awesome!
I need to add to my holiday book collection for my little one; thanks for the great suggestions!
I’m glad you enjoyed them!
Thanks for sharing this great list! My little guy would love these!!
Awesome!
So many of these I love! I think my favorite is still “if you give a mouse a cookie”, even though it’s not REALLY Christmas ;D
I love that book!
What a great list! Excellent choices 🙂
I think reading aloud to the kiddos at this age is the best way to promote the love of literacy!
Thank you!
Since I always purchase christmas books for all the grandkids and add them to their gifts this list is perfect.
I’m glad to help!
Awesome list! We need to check out the Very Hungary Caterpillar’s Christmas 123, since I have never heard of it before.
Thank you! I hope you like it!
This is a great list! I still wanted to pick up some new books for the holidays, thanks for the tips!
Thank you!
I’ve been looking for great books for my kids this holiday season. This is an awesome list!
One Awesome Momma
Thank you!!
Such an awesome list! 🙂
I can’t wait to check out some of these books for my baby boy .:)
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Great list! My daughter is 2 1/2 these would be totally appropriate for her. I can update my book collection from this post for sure!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
What a great list of books for littles! The Pea loves Daniel Tiger and Llama Llama 🙂
Thank you 🙂 Those are great books!
I have honestly been wanting to buy more Christmas books!! I haven’t heard of half of these…. so glad you shared this!
Thank you! Glad you found some new books!
We have several of these books, but I found a few more that I want to add to our collection. Great list!
Thanks!
This is such a cute list! Was looking for some christmas books and I’m so glad you posted this!
Thank you! I am glad I could help!
Great list! Have you thought of tying the list of books to an advent calendar?
Thank you for your comment! I grew up Catholic, which probably is the reason for the 25, but we are non-practicing.
Reading is my daughter’s favorite activity! This is a great list, thank you!
She’ll love these books!
Love these. Great for my three year old.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hey,
Thanks for including my book, HOW TO CATCH SANTA, on this fun list. Reading your post put a smile on my face. 🙂
Jean
PS I love your blog name!
Jean, we LOVE How To Catch Santa! I was worried my son would be a bit young for it when we received it, but it’s a joy to read and it’s a staple in our growing collection. Thank you so much for your comment 🙂
Ashley
Great list! My kids love the lights in The Little Blue Truck book!
It’s such a fun book!
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This is a great list! My kids love reading books, I should really get some of these Christmas ones! So often all 4 are lined up on the couch reading their books, looks super cute! Expect I think that they get sick of always needing to look at the same ones!
Thank you!
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So many great ideas here! I love getting my kids holiday-themed books!
Thank you!
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