MommaReads

Big Bear, Mommy Bear and Little Bear decide to stay up and see Santa, but no one seems to be able to keep their eyes open long enough.

Granny gets the house ready for the whole family to show up for Christmas dinner. Everyone arrives and has dinner, but then when it’s time to go there is too much snow to drive home, so the whole family ends up sleeping at Granny’s house…aunts, uncles and cousins. This is a very cute story and I love the pictures of all the cousins snuggled up together on Granny’s floor.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this book! A girl reminisces about all of the wonderful Christmas traditions she had with her grandparents on their farm…from pulling all of the ornaments out of the closet that smelled like moth balls, to writing a letter to Santa, to singing in the choir at church on Christmas Eve. This is such a great story for families who have their own traditions…I love the illustrations in this one too! This book is a gem!

This is a simple, sweetly written rhyming tale that tells the story of Jesus’ birth. I love the illustrations in this book! This one might be a new Christmas tradition in our house. I highly recommend it!

There are LOTS of things that Santa can do that regular people can’t, but there are also some things that Santa can’t do. Like, he can’t ever find enough reindeer biscuits. He can’t fly in airplanes and he can’t shave. So cute…who knew there were so many things Santa can’t do!? 🙂

Wolf is tired of always being the bad guy in stories, so he decides to write his own story about a nice wolf. The nice wolf goes out into the snow and meets up with a variety of animals who (wisely) run away from him. Lastly, he comes to a duck in the pond when he starts imagining what that duck might taste like for dinner. Uh oh! Maybe the nice wolf isn’t as nice as he wants to be. This story has a cute little twist at the end that will make your little one chuckle.

You may spend all day building the perfect snowman, but when snowmen go out at night they have so much fun that by morning your snowman may look a little disheveled. This is a very cute rhyming story about what your snowman might be doing while you are sound asleep.

This is a great book not only because it is cute and is a twist on the normal Santa delivering presents story, but it also uses rhyme which is important in teaching children how language works. When children start to understand rhyme, they can be read a story like this that uses rhyme and based on what they know about rhyming words put together with what they know about the plot of the story, they can start to fill in the blanks of the story if the reader stops and allows the child to finish the rhyming phrase.

This is a spin on the Goldilocks version, but with no Goldilocks. The bears make some gingerbread cookies, but they are too hot, so they go for a walk on Christmas Eve while they wait for the cookies to cool off. Someone comes to their house, however, while they are out and eats their gingerbread. There are clues while they are on their walk that Santa is in the neighborhood as well as clues left around the house that point to Santa being the one who ate the cookies. This is a cute story that is also a good book to work with kids on making predicitons. I got this one at the library.

This is a cute story with a good rhyme, but sometimes the illustrations are the star of a book and this is one of them. The illustrations are great and the looks on the animals’ faces as they are trying to push Santa out of the chimney are hilarious! The combo of the story and the illustrations are going to make you want to read this story again and again.