MommaReads

Katy is so strong that oftentimes she has to stay home when it snows because there isn’t enough snow for her to shovel. But one day the snow gets SO deep that no one can dig out the city but Katy. She helps the Chief of Police, the Postmaster, the Railway Station, the Telephone Company, the Electric Company, the Water Department, the Airport, the Fire Department and a doctor that needs to get to the hospital…then and only then does Katy rest. From the same author as Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.

A family who has immigrated from Germany loses their house in a fire, but the spirit of Christmas remains with them even when it seems they have lost even their most precious gifts.

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.