December Book List

Winter Celebrations & Holidays

Christmas Around the World by Mary D. Lankford

L’il Rabbit’s Kwanzaa by Donna L. Washington

The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes by Linda Glaser

The Night of Las Posadas by Tomie dePaola

Winter Lights: A Season in Poems and Quilts by Anne Grossnickle Hines

First Day of Winter (December 22)

Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft

The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice by Wendy Pfeffer

The Story of Snow by Mark Cassino

The Winter Solstice by Ellen Jackson

Winter Lullaby by Barbara Seuling

Gingerbread

Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett

Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett

The Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires

The Gingerbread Girl by Lisa Campbell Ernst

New Year’s Eve

Cecil’s New Year’s Eve Tail by Marie Fritz Perry

P. Bear’s New Year’s Party by Owen Paul Lewis

The Night Before New Year’s by Natasha Wing

Beginning Readers

Henry and Mudge in the Sparkle Days by Cynthia Rylant

It’s Snowing! It’s Snowing! Winter Poems by Jack Prelutsky

Poppleton in Winter by Cynthia Rylant

The Magic School Bus Lost in the Snow by Joanna Cole

Tiny the Snow Dog by Cari Meister

Where Fish Go in Winter by Amy Goldman Koss