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I can't give a complete list because I'm sure I'll forget something, but this is my family's list for Christmas reading. It's not long but the works are quality.

• Account of the Christmas story in Luke 2 (KJV), read by candlelight
• Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury: The Complete Christmas Collection from River Oak Publishing
• The Candymaker's Gift by David and Helen Haidle from Honor Books
• The Christmas Lizard by Cory Edwards from Honor Books
• The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado
• An Early-American Christmas by Tony daPaola
• This is the Star by Joyce Dunbar (along the line of "This is the house that Jack built")
• "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem

I am enjoying Alcott's writing very much these days. There is a nice bio of her in the book as well. Your kids will enjoy the candymaker, with it's beautiful illustrations and focus on Jesus, and the Oscar the lizard also learns the true meaning of Christmas. Early American Christmas focused on the blessing of God's bounty and not on the gifts. The poem is just for fun.

You may wonder about some of the publishers. River Oak is an imprint of Honor Books, a Christian publishing house with an emphasis on gift books. I have done a lot of proofreading for Honor Books and these are some books I received after I worked on them. I hope you will look for them in your local Christian bookstore or at www.honorbooks.com. And you might even find them at your library.

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