the twelve days of Christmas books- complete edition!

This Christmas Eve evening brought us to the final night of our Christmas book extravaganza, that I wrote about earlier this month. I wanted to keep a record of the books that we read together this year, and hopefully this will be a tradition for years to come. I wrapped the books and the kids' names were pulled out of a hat each night (in four rounds, so that the distribution of turns was as fair as possible!) to choose each night's selection. While JAM wasn't thrilled with the younger books, he did stay close just to listen while he continued with his drawing or playing nearby.

This year's twelve books were...

• Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson

• Dream Snow by Eric Carle

• Four Friends at Christmas by Tomie dePaola

• Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett

• The Great Reindeer Rebellion by Lisa Trumbauer

• If You Take a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Numeroff

• Maisy's Snowy Christmas Eve by Lucy Cousins

• Mouse's First Christmas by Lauren Thompson

• My First Christmas by Tomie dePaola

• Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh and J. otto Seibold

• The Twelve Days of Christmas in Virginia by Sue Corbett

• Waiting for Christmas by Monica Greenfield

With Christmas upon us, I anticipate another little bloggy break for me. I leave you with a holiday wish from my crazy crew-- may your Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Solstice/regular-old-Friday be or have been filled with joy, family, laughs, good eats, and magical elves to clean up all the mess!

Merry Christmas from these happy folks I know!

To you and yours,