Congratulations to Shelby Kring, winner of the holiday book giveaway!
I raise my 2 beautiful nieces Due to circumstances of why they moved in with me, they could not bring their toys, books, clothes, ect. They absolutely love reading, but do not have many books anymore. I love they way they light up over books and would love to see them add more to their collection, but books are not cheap and being a 21 year old single aunt, I don’t have the means to fill their shelves, though I wish I could.
Share the celebration of the holiday season with your children!
We’ve put together a list of our favorite picks for the holiday season and we hope you’ll consider picking one (or more!) of these books for the children in your life.
These books were featured on Sunday Morning Magazine with Rodney Lear, which airs Sundays at 7 a.m. on the radio stations Q102, B-105, Rewind 94.9 and 97.3 The Wolf. Check out Sunday Morning Magazine on Facebook by clicking here!
One lucky family will win each of these featured books! To enter the contest, leave a comment telling us why you’d like to win. We’ll choose a winner on Tuesday, December 18.
The Santa Trap by Jonathan Emmett
Bradley Bartleby is bad – VERY BAD – and Santa Claus knows it. So when Bradley empties his stocking to find nothing but a pair of socks, he hatches a devious plan. If Santa won’t give him the gift he wants, Bradley will just have to steal them… with dynamite, trapdoors and a tiger or two, Santa doesn’t stand a chance. Or does he?
Daddy Christmas & Hannukkah Mama by Selina Alko
I am a mix of two traditions. From Daddy Christmas and Hannukkah Mama. How lucky am I?
Holiday time at Sadie’s house means golden gelt sparkling under the Christmas tree, candy canes hanging on eight menorah branches, voices uniting to sing carols about Macabees and the manger, and latkes on the mantel awaiting Santa’s arrival.
Selina Alko’s joyous celebration of blended families will make the perfect holiday gift for the many Americans who celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah.
The Christmas Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood
The holidays are filled with joyful noise. But Christmas is sometimes wrapped in quiet: “Searching for presents quiet,” “Getting caught quiet,” and “Hoping for a snow day quiet.” Irresistibly cute, soft colored pencil illustrations of bunnies, bears, and more paint a magical holiday picture indeed.
How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas? by Jane Yolen, MarkTeague
From decorating the tree to wrapping presents, little dinosaurs love to celebrate Christmas. With holiday surprises around every corner, the award-winning team of Yolen and Teague create an engaging, fun gift sure to be read again and again.
How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah? by Jane Yolen, MarkTeague
Illustrations and rhyming text present some of the different ways a well-behaved dinosaur can celebrate the eight days and nights of Chanukah.
Snowman Magic by Katherine Tegen
When George stays home from school for a snow day, he finds himself staring out the window, bored. But when he sees the beautiful white slopes in his yard, he gets himself dressed to face the cold weather. George starts rolling the snow into balls and assembling them into a snowman. After his snowman is made, something unexpected happens! How long will George’s enchanted fun with his new friend last? In this original tale, Katherine Tegen has captured all the magic of the snowman, while Brandon Dorman’s lush illustrations truly bring him to life.
The Carpenter’s Gift by David Rubel
Henry and his out-of-work father have just finished a long day selling Christmas trees in Midtown Manhattan. Before heading home, they give away the last few trees to construction workers, who decorate the tallest one—the first Rockefeller Center tree! On Christmas morning, Henry awakes to a surprise. The workers have gathered outside his family’s drafty shack with enough lumber to build a simple, decent home. The gift of a hammer from one of the carpenters changes Henry’s life. With renewed hope for the future, young Henry plants a pinecone he has saved from the Rockefeller Center tree. Over his lifetime, the pinecone grows into a towering spruce. But the circle of giving is not yet complete….Written by children’s historian David Rubel in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity, and illustrated by Jim LaMarche, The Carpenter’s Gift celebrates the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, an American tradition. Each year, the tree is milled into lumber that Habitat for Humanity uses to build a simple, decent home with a family in need.
Santa from Cincinnati by Judi Barrett
As you might imagine, the early life of Santa Claus was a liiiiiiiittle different from the childhood of your average kid. His first words were “ho hoho!” By five he was wearing a fake beard and mustache, and could rarely be found without his favorite stuffed reindeer. It was clear from a very young age that he was destined for uniqueness….
Despite this, his parents went to great lengths to keep the normalcy in his life. They had him learn guitar (he was in a rock band!), and play baseball (he had quite an arm), and even do chores (okay—here he was like any other kid on earth—he hated chores). But there was no stopping Santa from being Santa, and one winter, he began to make his lists. He checked them twice, and delivered toys to children all over Cincinnati. Then, all over Ohio. Then—the world.
Compiled from his baby book, family photos, and report cards, Santa from Cincinnati provides a full-spectrum view of the boy who grew to be the man who grew to be Santa.
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All of these books sound so good!! I still love reading with my boy Jack!!
I would like to have all these books for my children because they enjoy reading and are always looking for new books to read!
I would love to give these books for my daughter Cheyenne. She is in 3rd grade and has pushed herself to go from a letter H book to letter M by January. She is helping her 4 year old brother how to pronounce letters that he has trouble with also like she did.
My sons and I read everyday so these would be great to add to our collection. Each week we go to the library and check out lots of books but they can’t get enough. So adding to our home library is always something I try to do.
I have a six year old daughter name Jada! she is currently struggling a little bit in first grade with reading! I currently don’t have many children’s books! These books would help me to help her practice her reading this holiday season in such a fun way! We would be so blessed!
Thank you for your time!
Mary*:-)
Would love to read them to my 4 small grandchildren!
I’m encouraging my daughter to read. These books would be very helpful.
I would love these books to read with my son who is almost 2. He loves to listen to the stories and find all kinds of things in the pictures. He has learned so much from the books we have.
I love a new take on the holidays! I would love to donate all of these books to Nanny’s Daycare. The kids there could really use some new books.
My son would really love these books, i lost my job in september and Christmas isnt going to be good this year. He really enjoys reading and I think he would like these
Books are still the best gift! These all look great.
My husband and I adopted two beautiful babies this year who are two and one, they are our Christmas miracle! They both already enjoy looking at books and being read to daily. We are building a book collection just for them and these would be an excellent addition.
I’d like to win these books for my new classroom library. I am graduating from university on Saturday and would love to begin building a collection of classics!
My 5 yr. old daughter and I love to read! These books would be a wonderful addition to our collection.
I would love to read these books with my son Cooper he is so fascinated with reading books, he is 2 1/2 yrs old. What a great way to still ensure younger children to still want to read from a hard back book and a not a Nook tablet or other computer devices………Something we all should still keep doing….
My daughter is all grown up but I would love to win theses books to donate to a needy family my work is getting Christmas presents for.
Both of my daughter’s love to read, these books would make great additions to our growing collection!
Hoping to start a family and I have been picking up Christmas books here and there to add to our collection. These books would be a great addition!
My daughter is 5 and learning to read. We love books!
We LOVE books at our house. Our son, who would be 2.5 years old, passed away and we take books with us each time we visit him at the cemetery to read with him. We’d love to add these ones to our collection and share them with him.
I have a 6 and 5 year old and they already love to read! These would be great to have in our family!
I raise my 2 beautiful neices. Due to cirrcumstances of why they moved in with me, they could not bring their toys, books, clothes, ect. They absolutely love reading, but do not have many books anymore. I love they way they light up over books and would love to see them add more to their collection, but books are not cheap and being a 21 year old single aunt, I dont have the means to fill their shelves, though I wish I could.
What wonderful holiday books! We have a collection of holiday books that our girls can’t wait for us to bring out every December. I’d love to share these with our cousins as well.
Love to win for my babies! All look like wonderful books!
My 2 kids would enjoy these books a lot.
I want to win these for my grandchildren.
Great books for my son and niece and nephew!
Books for my grandbabies, sign me up!
My grandkids need these books, great t oadd to their collection!
My nephew in the 6th grade loves reading books and would love to win and give them to him.
My daughter loves to read. She would choose books over tv or other toys.
I would like to to win these books for my 3 children we love reading together.
I have 3 Grandsons that would love these books.
The oldest is 8 and is reading every nite for 15 min. He struggles a little bit and is working really hard to master it. The other 2 love books. This would be a great addition to their collection.
These all look like fabulously fun books to share with my three girls during the holiday season. The Carpenter’s Gift is one that I especially want to share with them.
These books look like a wonderful series. I think it would be a great idea if they were donated to a local library. That way a lot of children could enjoy them.
I’d like to win because I have two young boys. (5 and 3) The 5 year old (Douglas Jr.) is beginning to read and we continue to search for new exciting books. This would make a nice Christmas gift from “Santa”.
I am a teacher and my students would love these books. I could teach some great lessons with these books. I work for cincinnati public and it is always great to get new books to share with the students. The students do not really have a lot of books at home and they do not usually get to see new ones so these would be a great edition to the classroom library.
Would love to win these books for my children. I have a 5 year old son and a 3 year old daughter who LOVE to read and be read too. We have always read before bed but this year the beginning of the school year I made them a promise to read to them EVERY single night, no matter how busy we are or what we have going on, or how tired we all are. NO MATTER WHAT! It is great time to spend together, and watching them learn and there little imaginations run wild is amazing. These books would be a wonderful addition to our at home library.
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My guys would LOVE to win the books as they are avid readers (they are 7 years old) and they also love to have me read to them. Especially this time of year. Seems we have more time to cuddle and settle in to read a good book together. Thanks for the opportunity!
This Christmas is going to be able family and how we can spend time with one another. There is nothing more important then being snuggled up on the couch with your children and reading a good book together. My children and I have read all of their books and now it is time for those books to find a new home and for us to rebuild a new collection and theses book would make a great addition. This tradition can be something my girls continue on with their families one day.
Merry Christmas!
My little boy just turned seven and is in 1st grade. He has a rare heart disease that required open heart surgery. As a result of the disease he is sick so often that he must be homeschooled to not fall behind. Books are his life and escape. We started reading books when he gets tests done or is in the hospital to make the time pass better. We read every day now and it would mean so much to him to get new books(we don’t have the means to get them too often). He’d be so excited. Thank you kindly for the consideration and happy holidays to all.
My kids love to be read too. As home schoolers we can never get too many books!!
Our family has a love of reading! We have 3 children and each of them goes to bed with some story time. Since being laid off from my job, we haven’t been able to add to our home collection. Currently, my children are growing weary of reading the same books we have for years. We do borrow from the library, but they can’t “treasure” these stories night after night after night the same way we can when we own them. I would LOVE to add to their collection, but currently cannot afford to do so. A handful of new reading treasures would be a blessing! There aren’t many things we can afford to do right now that we used to do and enjoy as a family. However, reading before bedtime is part of our tradition and so knit into our blood that we can’t imagine life without it. We bond over story time, and enjoy traveling to distant lands with different characters nightly. Reading is a family event in our household, and I would love to add some new books to our collection of treasures!!!!!
I would love to win these books to share with my son! He is just starting to learn how to read and I think these books would be fun for him!
Reading is a special bond my kids and it helps improve there vocab.It also helps us learn about so many different things.
We love sharing books with our 1 and 3 year old. It is our favorite part of the day when the kids get in their Jammies and we read and read and read before bed. The more books the better!
I LOVE reading and my 3 year old twins also love being read to every night. They will pull books off their bookshelf and entertain themselves for HOURS just looking through them! We really do not have any Christmas books though, and since they are now starting to understand Christmas, I think they would thoroughly enjoys these books!
I would love to win these so that me and my boys can spend time together reading
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