Weekend Reads 7 December: Christmas books

A Silver Thread on Christmas Day. 

By Josh Pyke and Hannah Sommerville. 

Scholastic Aust, 2024. 

ISBN 9781761299629. 

Australian. 

Change and continuity through a family's lives. Very sweet and sentimental. 

A Very Dinosaur Christmas. 

By Adam Wallace and Christopher Nielsen. 

Tommy Nelson, 2024. 

ISBN 9781400242085. 

Chaos at Christmas. Includes craft. 

Christmas? That's Not Right!

By Candy Bee and Lee Cosgrove. 

HarperCollins, 2024. 

ISBN 9780008660031.

Beyond silly and fun. But, actually nearly offensive. 
Do not recommend. 

Why I Love Christmas. 

By Michael Wagner and Tom Jellett. 

Puffin / Penguin Aust, 2024. 

ISBN 9781761344688. 

Australian. 

Deceptively heartfelt and emotional. 

In amongst the usual Southern hemisphere Christmas are moments that wrap around your heart, and find yourself blinking back tears. 

Santa's First Christmas. 

By Mac Barnett and Sydney Smith. 

Puffin, 2024. 

ISBN 9780241711392. 

So beautiful and gentle. 

The soft blurred lines of the illustrations give a timeless feel, and are as gentle as the text. 

A treasure. 

The Brightest Christmas Star. 

Laura Motherway and Deb Hudson. 

Lothian, 2024. 

ISBN 9780734423085. 

Australian. 

Rhyming text, from the point of view of the Christmas Star. It looks down about different celebrations, and families. 

Nativity. 

By Cynthia Rylant. 

Beach Lane Books, 2017. 

ISBN 9781481470414. 

The text is mostly Bible versus of the nativity and the (abbreviated) life of Jesus. 

Illustrated in folk art style. 

Ten Little Reindeer. 

By Jonny Lambert. 

Dorling Kindersley, 2020. 

ISBN 9780241439524. 

Board book. 

A rhyming counting down book, with substantial flaps. 

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