 | This is the Star by Joyce Dunbar
Buy used from: £4.85 Beautiful poetry paintings filled with wonder
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 | Little Tree by E.E. Cummings
Buy used from: £1.71 Mary Clare Smith's illustration of one of e e cummings' best-loved poems will bring the magic and spirit of Christmas into every home in which it is read
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 | The Jolly Christmas Postman (The Jolly Postman) by Janet Ahlberg
Buy new: £8.21 / Used from: £0.01 Perfect for little fingers
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 | Little Women: Oxford Children's Classics by Louisa May Alcott
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.38 Best opening line of a book ever, "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents" And the book has that feelgood feel you long for in the Christmas season
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 | The Best Christmas Present in the World by Michael Morpurgo
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £1.52 Christmas 1914 in the trenches of the Western Front and something wonderful happens
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 | On Angel Wings by Michael Morpurgo
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £0.66 Lovely re-telling of The Christmas story with a smashing twist
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 | A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: £0.80 No list would be complete without this classic, perfect introduction to Dickens for older children and lavishly illustrated
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 | The Christmas Story by Ian Beck
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £1.77 Ian Beck's books are all winners and this is no exception
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 | The Mouse before Christmas by Michael Garland
Buy new: £3.70 / Used from: £1.16 breathtaking artwork and lovely story
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 | The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.48 A timeless classic deserves to be read and re-read, evocative illustrations in this version
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 | Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £6.34 Detailed world of Father Christmas and his helpers told in letters a must have for older kids
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 | The Night Before Christmas (Pop-up book) by Robert Sabuda
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £7.98 Simply stunning, buy and treasure
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 | Father Christmas (Picture Puffin) by Raymond Briggs
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 Slightly subversive and great fun for older children we also love Father Christmas on holiday
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 | The Snowman (Picture Puffin) by Raymond Briggs
Buy new: £4.72 / Used from: £0.01 A Christmas classic
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 | Jesus' Christmas Party by Nicholas Allan
Buy new: £4.36 / Used from: £1.87 The Christmas story from the grumpy innkeepers point of view, neither pious or irreverent.
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 | The Nativity Play (Knight Books) by Nick Butterworth
Buy new: £4.17 / Used from: £0.01 Gentle evocation of a yearly event, if you've ever attended a nativity play it will make you smile
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 | The Little Reindeer by Michael Foreman
Buy new: £4.66 / Used from: £0.86 Boy looks after reindeer for a year, fantastic illustrations of a snowy New York
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 | A Christmas Wish by Marcus Sedgwick
Buy used from: £0.74 Translucent pages mark the divide between the real and surreal in this magical journey of a boy's dreamworld
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 | Christmas Poems (Usborne Poetry Books) by Sam Taplin
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £3.10 This work is a sparkling collection of festive poems for children that forms the perfect companion for Christmas.
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 | A Child's Christmas In Wales by Dylan Thomas
Buy new: £4.11 / Used from: £0.01 Another classic and Edward Ardizzone's illustrations are wonderful
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 | The Story of Christmas by Anita Ganeri
Buy used from: £0.01 The story is retold in a simple lyrical style which should be easy to read aloud, and the pictures of real children should help inspire children to put on their own nativity play.
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 | How Santa Really Works by Alan Snow
Buy used from: £5.31 Detail really appeals to slightly older children who love lurning hhow Santa pulls it all off
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 | The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Perfect advent read for 10+ Each chapter is a day in December captures the meaning and innocence of Christmas
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 | Another Night Before Christmas by Carol Ann Duffy
Buy used from: £6.47 Modern take on timeless classic
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 | Harry and the Dinosaurs make a Christmas Wish by Ian Whybrow
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £0.01 My son loves the detail see a customer buying a Harry book in the background while Nan chooses Harry's present
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