recommend a book for christmas eve

jackieblack

The Best Christmas Present In The World, by Michael Morpurgo
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Christmas-Present-World/dp/1405215186/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480601419&sr=8-1&keywords=THe+best+christmas+present+in+the+world
This is a wonderful book to read anytime, but especially poignant at Christmas

jackieblack

johannalf88 wrote: »

The Jolly Christmas Postman!

Bit young for a 9 year old though? (more suitable for 3-5 I'd have thought?)

missbiggles1

Why not branch out into poetry?



The Oxen
BY THOMAS HARDY
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
“Now they are all on their knees,”
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in hearthside ease.

We pictured the meek mild creatures where
They dwelt in their strawy pen,
Nor did it occur to one of us there
To doubt they were kneeling then.

So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
“Come; see the oxen kneel,

“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,”
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.

SueMaggie

This is a lovely book with beautiful illustrations -

A Redwall Winter's Tale

It's part of a series, but you don't need to know anything about the previous books to enjoy it.

It's not strictly about Christmas, but is about winter and waiting for something big to happen so would be great to read on Christmas Eve.

suejb2

The Jolly Christmas Postman!

Please get this it's brilliant.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

For my 9th birthday I got Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone; a fantastic children's fantasy adventure story. The next in the series is The Dark Is Rising, which is set around Christmas, but is quite sinister so would depend how advanced his reading is. The Box Of Delights is another festive children's classic, or The Children of Green Knowe. Introduce him to the timeless pleasure of reading a spooky story whilst tucked up in bed with the wind howling outside....

chesky

The Jolly Christmas Postman - and all the other Jolly Postman books - simply wonderful and (most important) a joy to read.

chesky

But he might feel he's too old for it, even though I'm not.

Faith177

Kaye1 wrote: »

We always read 'The Night Before Christmas.'

I had an illustrated copy of that when I was young and it was a firm favourite can still quote nearly all of it now and love reading it to my God Children

iammumtoone

maman wrote: »

I understand now that you're trying to add to the books each year.
If it was just a tradition you wanted to build up in terms of reading aloud I'd say read The Night Before Christmas every time.

Yes I kind of wish I have started out by reading the same book every year now, if I could go back I would do that. There are so many lovely Christmas books for younger children I wanted him to experience them all, just didn't think ahead that it would get harder to find suitable ones as he got older.

We do have the same tradition each year with the hamper given to him once we get back from the Christmas eve family service. I always do myself a hamper as well with new pjs