recommend a book for christmas eve

iammumtoone

Thank you for all the great suggestions everyone, some lovely books to chose from.

I also like the idea of a poem I will definitely be using that in later years, I think this and next year will be the last time I can get away with reading him a book before he gets too old, so after that I will buy him a age appropriate Christmas story/novel to read himself and I will read a poem to him.

Person_one

Kaye1 wrote: »

We always read 'The Night Before Christmas.'

My dad always read this to us on Christmas Eve too, he'd have carried on well into adulthood I reckon! When it was his first grandchild's first Christmas he disappeared into the loft and came back with the same copy he used to read to us to give to their dad. It was very sweet, but I don't know how much longer that book can stay in one piece! :rotfl:

meer53

The letters in the envelopes in The Jolly Christmas Postman are definitely not for 3-5 year olds. I still think they're aimed at adults ! It's always been our favourite Christmas book, along with the other Jolly Postman books.

Spendless

What about an extract of a book, rather than the whole book? It might open him up to some age appropriate ones that he'd eventually like to read more of.

In the Harry Potter books they start during the summer school holidays/start of Autumn term, so go through the Christmas period relatively early on. It's covered in each book, with different thing happening in the way of gifts etc. The very first book (Harry Potter and The Philosophers stone) was very much aimed at children. It's only later one, when they became more popular and gained more adult readers then the books became bigger and darker and more plot twisting.

That's the first series I can think of off the top of my head, but I'm sure they'll be other stories like this.