The "problem" with giving our children new Christmas picture books on the feast of St. Nicholas each year (in addition to the other books we've purchased or have been given) is that, after 11 years of marriage and 6 children, we have a
Inspired by Charlotte, I'm wrapping up some of our christmas picture books this year: One for each day of Advent and Christmas! I've had the paper since last year (being full term with Rose I just didn't have the energy to use it) and am so glad I finally have a chance to try out this idea with our children this year!
I have quite a few of our Christmas books in my sidebar right now, but here is a peek at all of our books this year:
~ First Week of Advent :: November 28 - December 4 ~
Theme: Preparations
Our additional "Preparation" themed books for the 1st Week of Advent:
A few favorites from the library:
~ Second Week of Advent :: December 5-11 ~
Theme: St. Nicholas & Giving
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(Pablo's Christmas
is new to us and just arrived in our mailbox last week! Thank you Dessi!! I thought that the feast of St. Juan Diego would be a fun day to read it!) Our additional Feast Day books for the 2nd week of Advent:
Our additional "Giving" themed books for the 2nd Week of Advent:
~ Third Week of Advent :: December 12-18 ~
Theme: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Santa Lucia, Los Posadas and Family
These are wrapped in purple paper with pink dots.
Our additional Feast Day books for the 3rd week of Advent:
Our additional "Family" themed books for the 3rd Week of Advent:
A few favorites from the library:
~ Fourth Week of Advent :: December 19-24 ~
Theme : The Nativity and Angels
Our additional "Nativity, Angel and Christmas Eve" themed books for the 4th week of Advent:
A few Favorites from the library:
~ Christmas Day and the Twelve Days of Christmas ~
December 25 - January 6
December 25 - January 6
These are wrapped in gold paper and will be placed in the empty basket on Christmas morning!
(An image link isn't available, but we will be reading The Story of the Three Wise Kings
by Tomie dePaola on January 2nd.)
by Tomie dePaola on January 2nd.) Our additional books for the Christmas Season:
~ Our Family Advent Read-a-louds ~
~ A Basket of Board Books for our Littlest Ones ~
The Best Christmas Story (Hide-Away Books)
(Quite a few of the books have study guides in either Christmas Mosaic, An Illustrated Book Study for Advent and Christmas or Catholic Mosaic: Living the Liturgical Year with Literature an Illustrated Book Study for Cathoilc Children, which we will be using as well!)
Wishing you all a very Blessed Advent!
The Best Christmas Story (Hide-Away Books)
(Quite a few of the books have study guides in either Christmas Mosaic, An Illustrated Book Study for Advent and Christmas or Catholic Mosaic: Living the Liturgical Year with Literature an Illustrated Book Study for Cathoilc Children, which we will be using as well!)
Wishing you all a very Blessed Advent!
I just LOVE Christmas Mosaic. I wonder how long it took for Ms. Gibbons to come up with this list of books?! It blows me away everytime I look at that master book.
ReplyDeleteP.S. You can also check them out at the library...well, most of them. It helped my pocket book out;)
Wow! What a great post! Thanks so much for putting this all together. I wanted to wrap the books up for Advent this year, but ran out of time. I'll be on the look-out for purple, rose (pink) and gold wrapping paper though for next year. Oh, and I too love Christmas Mosaic. Such a fantastic resource!
ReplyDeleteOh, I know! The Book Lists that Cay put together in Christmas Mosaic are just AMAZING!!! SOOOO many books to choose from!! I've loved adding our favorites to our own collection over the past couple years!
ReplyDeleteI DO love using our library, but I hate relying on them.... A few years back they reopened, but before that they were closed for a couple years and it was just awful! At that time I started building our home library and don't regret it, despite the cost! ;)
Kelly ~ Charlotte told me to check Target last year and they have the purple paper all the time. They also have the purple paper with pink and white dots which works great for the third week of Advent.
Ooo, so glad you got it!!! Enjoy!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this wonderful post! What a blessing of a resource! I hope you're having a blessed advent season!
ReplyDeleteLove the book list, our Advent/Christmas books are overflowing as well!!! Our libraries are so similar I can just print your organized list for my Advent folder. I wasn't able to find purple paper this year!!! Last year Michaels had it. So I have been making purple felt "pockets" blanket-stitched with pink thread. I don't have the whole season done in one sitting like last year....but I won't have to hunt for the paper again. Have a Blessed Advent!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great post always love your blog. I grew up without any tradtions and your blog has been a true blessing to our family. We wrapped our books this year with Merry Christmas paper. I hope we can use the purple and pink paper next year what a great idea:)
ReplyDeleteJessica, You are truly amazing!
ReplyDeleteI want to be like you when I grow up :)
Love, Lori
wonderful post and delightful books. i hope to one day have a home library, such as yours.
ReplyDeleteit's off to the public library for us.
pax Christi - lena
p.s. happy to have you back. i hope your dear father-in-law is well.
I am linking to this awesome list. I don't have the funds to spare on books this year, but maybe someone will get some good gift ideas. Thanks for posting this, Jessica!
ReplyDeleteI just added your feed to my favorites. I really enjoy reading your posts.
ReplyDeleteHave a DYNAMITE day my friend!
ReplyDeleteI just added your feed to my favorites. I really enjoy reading your posts..
ReplyDeleteHi Jessica, I saw your post with the wonderful selection of Advent books and have been working on getting them from our local library. I blogged about them today and linked back to you for the credit!
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