New for 2026 and classics · ages 2 to 8
Christmas picture books for kids
Here are twelve new ones, 24 that have lasted for years, and how long each one takes to read before lights out.
Nobody has made a proper list of this year's Christmas picture books yet, so here's ours: six out this fall and six from last Christmas that most families haven't met. Then the classics, sorted by age. Every book has its publisher's age range (and whose it is), its page count and our guess at the minutes it takes to read aloud. There are no covers or shop links, and the one book that's ours sits in its own box.
New this year
New Christmas picture books for 2026
Most of these are too new to be on a library shelf yet, so we've gone by what each publisher says the book is about and put it in our own words. Youngest first.
Out this fall · 6 books
Published between September 1 and October 13, 2026.
Tom and Momo
Akiko Miyakoshi
Christmas Eve
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
Two children have just moved into the same apartment building, and they keep nearly meeting all over town. Then on Christmas Eve, in the line for a Christmas cake, each of them spots someone else in yellow. You'll find yourself reading it in a low voice.
Good for a child who's just moved house.
Out September 1, 2026, Kids Can Press. The date is from Publishers Weekly; the publisher's page gives none. Age range and pages from Kids Can Press.
Facts from Kids Can Press · Publishers Weekly
Santa Loves Snow Cones
Ben Okon, illustrated by Komal Sharma
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pages
- 40
- Read aloud
- 6 to 10 min
Santa loves snow cones, but only white ones, because a colored one would stain his white suit. Wait, WHITE suit? It's a silly rhyming story about how Santa got his colors, the third Mythical Feasts book.
Good for anyone who has ever spilled something on a party outfit.
Out October 6, 2026, in hardcover, Flamingo Books (Penguin Random House). The same page lists the ebook in November 2025, so it's new in hardcover this year. Age range and pages from Penguin Random House.
Facts from Penguin Random House
Jingle: How the Littlest Reindeer Earned Her Bells
MacKenzie Cadenhead, illustrated by Erin Kraan
- Ages
- 4 to 8
- Pages
- 40
- Read aloud
- 6 to 10 min
The smallest reindeer at the North Pole wants her magic bells and a place on Santa's team, so, with help from her puppy, Holly Jolly, she has a go at the big yearly contest, all in rhyme.
Good for the smallest one in the family.
Out October 13, 2026, Random House Studio (Penguin Random House). Age range and pages from Brightly (Penguin Random House).
Facts from Brightly (Penguin Random House)
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Clement Clarke Moore, illustrated by Jon J. Muth
Christmas Eve
- Ages
- 4 to 8
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
The whole poem from 1823, newly painted in watercolor. It's set on Christmas Eve, and it's where Santa's eight reindeer first got their names, so it's an easy pick for the last night.
Good for Christmas Eve, read by whoever does the best voices.
Out October 6, 2026, Scholastic. The date is from Publishers Weekly; Scholastic's page gives none. Age range and pages from Scholastic.
Facts from Scholastic · Publishers Weekly
The Year the Corgis Saved Christmas
Sherri L. Smith, illustrated by Nidhi Chanani
- Ages
- 4 to 8
- Pages
- 48
- Read aloud
- 8 to 12 min
Santa's reindeer are about to go on strike, so a Christmas-loving corgi and his corgi friends set off for the North Pole to save the night. The whole thing rhymes, and it is VERY much a dog book.
Good for dog people, and children who think the reindeer deserve a day off.
Out September 8, 2026, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Age range and pages from Simon & Schuster.
Facts from Simon & Schuster
From last Christmas, still new to most families · 6 books
Published in the fall of 2025, so your library may well have them by now.
Elmore and the Big Christmas Rescue
Dev Petty, illustrated by Mike Boldt
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pages
- 40
- Read aloud
- 6 to 10 min
Santa has a cold and gets sent on vacation, so he leaves Elmore the moose in charge. The elves are cross, the reindeer run wild, and Elmore has to find out he can do it. If you have Elmore the Christmas Moose, this is the next one.
Good for a child about to try something big for the first time.
Out October 28, 2025, Doubleday Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House). Age range and pages from Brightly (Penguin Random House).
Facts from Brightly (Penguin Random House)
Mr. Willowby's Head Over Heels Christmas
Robert Barry
Christmas Eve
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pages
- 40
- Read aloud
- 6 to 10 min
A newly found story by the author of Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree (1963), with a note at the end from his son. On Christmas Eve Mr. Willowby's tree is stuck in a snowdrift, so Barnaby Bear and his woodland friends haul one up the mountain for him.
Good for families who already love the first one.
It goes with Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree, further down.
Out October 21, 2025, Doubleday Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House). Age range and pages from Brightly (Penguin Random House).
Facts from Brightly (Penguin Random House)
Stop That Santa!
Alastair Heim, illustrated by Migy Blanco
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
Someone has stolen the town's Christmas tree, so Detective Cluehound and Sergeant Squirrel go after the thief in a rhyming mystery.
Good for little detectives.
Out September 2, 2025, Tiger Tales. Age range and pages from Brightly (Penguin Random House).
Facts from Brightly (Penguin Random House)
The Christmas Sweater
Jan Brett
- Ages
- 4 to 8
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
Theo's yiayia, his grandmother, knits his dog Ari a red Christmas sweater. Then, on a snowshoe hike to Echo Lake, the sweater goes missing, and so do their tracks home. The pictures are busy, framed winter scenes to pore over.
Good for a lap with a grandparent in it.
It goes with The Mitten, further down.
Out November 25, 2025, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House). Age range and pages from Brightly (Penguin Random House).
Facts from Brightly (Penguin Random House)
Interrupting Chicken Saves the Nutcracker
David Ezra Stein
- Ages
- 4 to 8
- Pages
- 48
- Read aloud
- 8 to 12 min
At her first ballet, the little red chicken can't help jumping up on the stage to save the Nutcracker from Fritz and the Mouse King. It's very funny, and funnier still if your child already knows the other Interrupting Chicken books.
Good for a trip to the Nutcracker, and children who interrupt (all of them).
Out September 9, 2025, Candlewick. Age range and pages from Brightly (Penguin Random House).
Facts from Brightly (Penguin Random House)
The 13th Day of Christmas
Adam Rex
- Ages
- 5 to 8
- Pages
- 48
- Read aloud
- 11 to 14 min
The Twelve Days of Christmas, if the true love had shopped online. A lonely man keeps getting birds, milkmaids and pipers, all because of a mix-up, when all she meant to buy was two rings. The jokes are for older kids, and for whoever's reading.
Good for 6 to 8 year olds who know the song.
Out September 9, 2025, Neal Porter Books (Holiday House). Age range and pages from Brightly (Penguin Random House). Lots of words a page, so more time than most books this long.
Facts from Brightly (Penguin Random House)
None of the twelve is religious. If a new nativity story is what you're after, Publishers Weekly's fall preview lists a few. We left out books that come from a TV show or a film, too.
The classics
Christmas picture books by age
These 24 have been read to a lot of children, so a library is likely to have most of them. Publishers put nearly all of them at 3 to 7 or 4 to 8, so the age groups are our call: shorter and rhymier first, the longer stories at 6 to 8. Seven are about winter rather than Christmas, and they're marked Winter.
They're the same 24 as on our book advent calendar, which wraps one for every night of December. Here you get their pages and reading times as well.
Ages 2 to 3 · 6 books
Here there are flaps to lift and rhymes to join in with, and the two shortest are done in under five minutes.
The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats
Winter
- Ages
- 2 to 5
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
Peter spends a whole day out in fresh city snow, and the next morning there's more. Keats won the Caldecott Medal for it.
Good for a snowy morning.
First published 1962, Viking. 32 pages in hardcover; the board book is shorter. Age range from Penguin Random House, paperback. Pages from Open Library.
Facts from Penguin Random House · Open Library
Little Owl's Snow
Divya Srinivasan
Winter
- Ages
- 3 to 5
- Pages
- 40
- Read aloud
- 6 to 10 min
A young owl watches his first winter come in, as his friends settle down for the season and the first snow falls.
Good for the first cold week of the year.
First published 2018, Viking Books for Young Readers. Age range from Penguin Random House. Pages from Open Library.
Facts from Penguin Random House · Open Library
Dear Santa
Rod Campbell
- Ages
- 2 to 4
- Pages
- 14
- Read aloud
- 2 to 3 min
It's by the author of Dear Zoo. A child writes to Santa, and the presents come one by one behind flaps until the right one turns up.
Good for small hands that like lifting flaps.
First published 2004, Little Simon. Age range and pages from Pan Macmillan. Very few words a page, so less time than the pages suggest.
Facts from Pan Macmillan · Simon & Schuster · Open Library
Little Blue Truck's Christmas
Alice Schertle, illustrated by Jill McElmurry
- Ages
- Not given
- Pages
- 24
- Read aloud
- 2 to 4 min
Blue delivers Christmas trees to all his animal friends and keeps the smallest one for himself. It rhymes, and it counts.
Good for toddlers who already love Blue.
First published 2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. No publisher's age: we couldn't read one on the publisher's site. Pages from Open Library. Very few words a page, so less time than the pages suggest.
Facts from Open Library
The Christmas Quiet Book
Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Renata Liwska
- Ages
- Not given
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 3 to 6 min
Animal children in soft pictures show the quiet moments of the season, from peeking at presents to listening for sleigh bells. It's a good one for winding down.
Good for winding down at the very end of the day.
First published 2012, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children. No publisher's age: we couldn't read one on the publisher's site. Pages from Open Library. Very few words a page, so less time than the pages suggest.
Facts from Open Library
Bear Stays Up for Christmas
Karma Wilson, illustrated by Jane Chapman
- Ages
- 2 to 4 for the board book, 4 to 8 for the hardcover
- Pages
- 32 to 40
- Read aloud
- 5 to 10 min
His friends wake Bear from his winter sleep to get ready for Christmas, and he ends up the only one awake, making presents while they doze.
Good for a child too excited to sleep.
First published 2004, Margaret K. McElderry Books. Age range from Simon & Schuster. Pages from Open Library (by edition).
Facts from Simon & Schuster · Open Library
Ages 4 to 5 · 9 books
At four and five a book can have a real plot with a twist in it, and most of these take five to ten minutes.
The Mitten
Jan Brett
Winter
- Ages
- 3 to 5
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
A boy drops a white mitten in the snow, and one animal after another squeezes inside, each bigger than the last, until something has to give.
Good for joining in, since every animal is a bit bigger than the last.
First published 1989, G.P. Putnam's Sons. Age range from Penguin Random House. Pages from Open Library.
Facts from Penguin Random House · Open Library
Snowmen at Night
Caralyn Buehner, illustrated by Mark Buehner
Winter
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
If a snowman looks a little different in the morning, this book knows why. Snowmen sneak out at night to go sledding, race and drink cocoa.
Good for anyone who has built a snowman and wondered.
First published 2002, Dial. Age range from Penguin Random House. Pages from Open Library.
Facts from Penguin Random House · Open Library
Pick a Pine Tree
Patricia Toht, illustrated by Jarvis
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pages
- 40
- Read aloud
- 6 to 10 min
It rhymes its way through the whole tree tradition, from choosing the tree and getting it home to opening the boxes of decorations and switching on the lights.
Good for the weekend the tree goes up.
First published 2017, Candlewick. Age range from Candlewick. Pages from Open Library.
Facts from Candlewick · Open Library
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
Robert Barry
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
Mr. Willowby's tree is too tall, so the top gets snipped off and becomes someone else's tree, then someone smaller's, all the way down, and it's all in rhyme.
Good for anyone who ever bought a tree that was too tall.
First published 1963, McGraw-Hill. Age range from Penguin Random House. Pages from Open Library.
Facts from Penguin Random House · Open Library
Red and Lulu
Matt Tavares
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pages
- 40
- Read aloud
- 6 to 10 min
Two cardinals lose each other when their tree is cut down and taken to New York City to be a giant Christmas tree, and Red searches the whole city for Lulu.
Good for bird lovers, and a trip to see a big city tree.
First published 2017, Candlewick. Age range from Candlewick. Pages from Open Library.
Facts from Candlewick · Open Library
Santa Bruce
Ryan T. Higgins
- Ages
- 3 to 5
- Pages
- 48
- Read aloud
- 8 to 12 min
Bruce, a very grumpy bear, gets mistaken for Santa, and the whole forest lines up with its wishes. It's funny all the way through.
Good for grown-ups who secretly side with the bear.
First published 2018, Disney-Hyperion. Age range and pages from Disney Books.
Facts from Disney Books · Open Library
The Little Reindeer
Nicola Killen
- Ages
- 4 to 8
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
A jingle in the snowy woods leads a girl to a lost reindeer and a magic ride by night, with cut-out pages to peek through.
Good for fingers that like holes to peek through.
First published 2016, Simon & Schuster. Age range from Simon & Schuster. Pages from Open Library.
Facts from Simon & Schuster · Open Library
The Jolly Christmas Postman
Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Janet Ahlberg
Christmas Eve
- Ages
- 4 to 8
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
On Christmas Eve the postman rides through fairy tale land, and the letters and cards he brings are real ones in envelopes, a little game too, for children to pull out.
Good for children who love opening things.
First published 1991, Heinemann. Age range and pages from Hachette.
Facts from Hachette · Open Library
Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present
John Burningham
Christmas Eve
- Ages
- 3 to 5
- Pages
- 40 to 48
- Read aloud
- 6 to 12 min
A tired Father Christmas finds one present still in his sack and goes by every kind of transport to get it to a boy on top of a faraway mountain before morning.
Good for anyone who loves things that go, since he tries nearly all of them.
First published 1993, Walker Books. Age range from Walker Books. Pages from Open Library (by edition).
Facts from Walker Books · Open Library
Ages 6 to 8 · 9 books
Older listeners can sit through more words, so the wordiest books ended up here, two true stories among them. Even so, none should take much over ten minutes.
Owl Moon
Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr
Winter
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
A girl and her father walk through the snowy woods on a winter night, very quietly, hoping to call down an owl. Its pictures won the Caldecott Medal.
Good for a calm bedtime, read nearly in a whisper.
First published 1987, Philomel Books. Age range from Penguin Random House. Pages from Open Library.
Facts from Penguin Random House · Open Library
Snowflake Bentley
Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrated by Mary Azarian
Winter
- Ages
- Not given
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 7 to 10 min
Wilson Bentley was a Vermont farmer who taught himself to photograph single snowflakes, and this is his true story.
Good for the child who asks how things work.
First published 1998, Houghton Mifflin. No publisher's age: we couldn't read one on the publisher's site. Pages from Open Library. Lots of words a page, so more time than most books this long.
Facts from Open Library
The Christmas Owl
Ellen Kalish and Gideon Sterer, illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki
- Ages
- 4 to 8
- Pages
- 40
- Read aloud
- 6 to 10 min
This one is true too. A small owl was carried to New York inside a giant Christmas tree, and a wildlife rescuer, one of the two authors, looked after it.
Good for animal lovers who like to know it really happened.
First published 2021, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Age range and pages from Hachette.
Facts from Hachette · Open Library
Night Tree
Eve Bunting, illustrated by Ted Rand
- Ages
- Not given
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
Every year a family walks into the forest at Christmas and decorates a tree with food for the wild animals. It may be out of print, so ask your library.
Good for families who'd like to give the birds something this year.
First published 1991, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. No publisher's age: we couldn't read one on the publisher's site. Pages from Open Library.
Facts from Open Library
The Christmas Boot
Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
- Ages
- 4 to 8
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 7 to 10 min
A lonely old woman finds one warm boot in the snow, and her wishes keep coming true until its owner, in a red suit, knocks at her door.
Good for an older listener ready for a quiet, kind ending.
First published 2016, Dial. Age range and pages from Penguin Random House. Lots of words a page, so more time than most books this long.
Facts from Penguin Random House · Open Library
Too Many Tamales
Gary Soto, illustrated by Ed Martinez
Christmas Eve
- Ages
- 4 to 8
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 7 to 10 min
Making tamales on Christmas Eve, Maria tries on her mother's ring, loses it, and gets her cousins to eat every single tamale looking for it.
Good for a family that cooks together at Christmas.
First published 1993, G.P. Putnam's Sons. Age range from Penguin Random House. Pages from Open Library. Lots of words a page, so more time than most books this long.
Facts from Penguin Random House · Open Library
The Shortest Day
Susan Cooper, illustrated by Carson Ellis
Winter
- Ages
- 4 to 8
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 5 to 8 min
It's a short poem about the longest night of the year, when people long ago lit fires and candles to welcome the sun back. In 2026 the shortest day is December 21.
Good for December 21, read by candlelight.
First published 2019, Candlewick. Age range from Candlewick. Pages from Open Library.
Facts from Candlewick · Open Library
The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg
Christmas Eve
- Ages
- Not given
- Pages
- 32
- Read aloud
- 7 to 10 min
On Christmas Eve a boy boards a night train to the North Pole and is given the first gift of Christmas, a sleigh bell only believers can hear. The book came first, long before the 2004 film.
Good for older kids on Christmas Eve.
First published 1985, Houghton Mifflin. No publisher's age: we couldn't read one on the publisher's site. Pages from Open Library. Lots of words a page, so more time than most books this long.
Facts from Open Library · Andersen Press (UK)
The Christmas Book Flood
Emily Kilgore, illustrated by Kitty Moss
Christmas Eve
- Ages
- 4 to 8
- Pages
- 40
- Read aloud
- 6 to 10 min
The story comes from Iceland's Jólabókaflóð, the Christmas book flood. A girl hunts for the perfect book to give her family so they can all spend Christmas Eve reading, which makes it a book advent calendar inside a book.
Good for a family that gives books, and the last night of a book advent calendar.
First published 2022, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Age range and pages from Macmillan.
Facts from Macmillan · Open Library
Read-aloud times
How we worked out the minutes
Nobody prints how long a picture book takes to read aloud, so these are our estimates, made from the page count. We checked them against the one book we can time to the second, our own: 790 words on 34 pages, which our read-along, in no hurry at all, reads in just over 7 minutes. Turn the pages yourself and it's about 8.
A book with very few words on a page gets less time than its pages suggest, and a book with lots of words gets more. We say which under each one. And if you stop to talk about the pictures it takes longer, which is the good kind of longer.
We didn't give any of them stars or a score. Half of them are brand new and we know them only from their publishers, and we'd rather tell you what's in a book than pretend to rate it.
Pages to minutes
| Pages | Read aloud | Books here |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 16 | 2 to 4 minutes | 1 |
| 24 | 3 to 5 minutes | 1 |
| 32 | 5 to 8 minutes | 19 |
| 40 | 6 to 10 minutes | 10 |
| 48 | 8 to 12 minutes | 5 |
The longest on the page is The 13th Day of Christmas, and the shortest is Dear Santa.
Book facts checked on each publisher's own page, on 12 Oct 2026 for the new books and 10 Oct 2026 for the classics, with Open Library's records for page counts and two dates from Publishers Weekly, all linked under each book. We left out covers and shop links on purpose, so take the list to your library or your bookshop.
Our own book
The Christmas Secret
A Christmas Eve picture book with a read-along · ages 3 to 7 · out on October 20
It's ours, so it's here and not in the lists, and you should know that before you read on. On Christmas Eve a little girl sees Santa's red hot-air balloon over the Golden Mountains and runs after it, all the way to a place nobody is ever supposed to find.
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pages
- 34
- Read aloud
- About 8 min
To be fair to the others: it doesn't rhyme, it's told by the girl, all grown up, looking back, and Santa in it is completely real, which matters if your family does Santa differently. It comes with a read-along on a phone or tablet. And it's brand new, so nobody has reviewed it yet. The age is our own call.
Good for Christmas Eve itself, at 3 to 7.
In the mornings
Something to open in the mornings too
Picture books take care of the evenings. For the mornings there's 24 Doors, our advent calendar by email, with a door to open every day from December 1 to Christmas Eve.
Questions
Grown-ups ask
What are the best Christmas picture books for preschoolers?
At 2 and 3, short ones with rhymes or flaps: Dear Santa, Little Blue Truck's Christmas, The Christmas Quiet Book and Bear Stays Up for Christmas, and The Snowy Day for a snowy morning. At 4 and 5, Santa Bruce, Snowmen at Night, The Mitten and The Jolly Christmas Postman. Of this year's new books, Tom and Momo and Santa Loves Snow Cones are pitched youngest, at 3 to 7.
What's a good Christmas book for a 5 year old?
Five is the age for a real story with a joke in it. Santa Bruce, The Jolly Christmas Postman and Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree have worked for years. New this fall, Jingle: How the Littlest Reindeer Earned Her Bells and The Bakery Dragon and the Giant Cookie are both for 4 to 8, and last year's Elmore and the Big Christmas Rescue is for 3 to 7.
What are the new Christmas picture books this year?
Out in fall 2026, by date:
- Tom and Momo, September 1
- The Year the Corgis Saved Christmas, September 8
- Santa Loves Snow Cones, October 6
- 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, October 6
- The Bakery Dragon and the Giant Cookie, October 6
- Jingle: How the Littlest Reindeer Earned Her Bells, October 13
Santa Loves Snow Cones is new in hardcover; its ebook came out last year.
How long does it take to read a picture book aloud?
Most picture books have 32 pages, and at a bedtime pace that's about 5 to 8 minutes. A long 48 page book can take 12, and a board book with a few words a page is done in 3. Every book on this page has its own estimate, worked out from its pages.
Are there Christmas picture books that aren't religious?
Yes, every book on this page. They're about Santa, reindeer, trees, presents and families, and seven of the classics are about winter rather than Christmas: The Snowy Day, Little Owl's Snow, The Mitten, Snowmen at Night, Owl Moon, Snowflake Bentley and The Shortest Day. If it's a nativity story you want, this year's new ones are in Publishers Weekly's fall preview.
Which Christmas picture books happen on Christmas Eve?
From the classics, The Jolly Christmas Postman, Too Many Tamales, Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present, The Polar Express and The Christmas Book Flood. From the new ones, Tom and Momo, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and Mr. Willowby's Head Over Heels Christmas. Our Christmas Eve page plans the hours before the story, and our book advent calendar saves one of them for the 24th.
More Christmas
Or see all of them on one page, from the weeks before Christmas to the night itself.
Christmas EvePlan the evening together, print a card for Santa's plate and his boot prints, and find every Christmas page in the order it happens.
24 Doors, the advent calendar by emailOne door by email every morning from December 1 to 24: a riddle, something to make, a kind mission, and now and then an animal that steps into your room.
Christmas scavenger huntRhyming clues from one of Santa's elves for Christmas morning and Christmas Eve, and Santa's own candy cane hunt from our book, which ends at the bookshelf.
Letter to Santa and wish listDraw it, trace it or write it: a letter to Santa for every age, a wish list, and Santa's real addresses.
A letter from SantaSanta writes back, in his own handwriting: your child's name, two good things they did this year, and notes for Christmas morning.
How many sleeps until Christmas?Count the sleeps with the little glass box from our story, and print a paper chain that loses a link every night.
Christmas Eve box ideasWhat goes in the box at every age from 1 to 8, with box labels, name tags and a key for Father Christmas to print.
Book advent calendarHow to make one on any budget, with 24 numbered tags to print and 24 picture books by age.
Santa's reindeer namesLearn all eight in order with our rhyme, print the poster, and find out what real reindeer are like.
Reindeer foodOats and seeds in a bowl, never glitter, with our own poem and bag toppers and tags with your child's name.
Santa's nice listA certificate for kind things only, signed by Santa, and 24 kind things to do in December.
Christmas gift tagsEveryone's names fit on one sheet of tags in the pictures of our book, and Santa's own tags come signed.
Christmas elf namesSpin up an elf name from a first letter and a birthday month, and make it official with a badge or an elf ID card.
The candy cane storyCandy canes were plain white until about 1900. Read what happened next and the legends, then print blank canes to stripe your own way.
Christmas activity sheetsSeven black and white sheets for ages 3 to 8, from a picture word search to bingo for a whole class, answers included.