Christmas Story Books for Kids

Hardcover Picture Books New for Christmas 2008

Nov 3, 2008
Nicole Skutelnik

Reindeer Christmas - Simon & Schuster

This Christmas, add to your child's collection by giving them a beautiful holiday story book.

Here's a list of Christmas hardcover story books that are new for 2008. Also check out a list of softcover and classic Christmas stories for children.

Christmas

Why I Love Christmas by Daniel Howarth (Harpercollins UK | November 7, 2008)
The Christmas Bears by Chris Conover (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Incorporated | October 31, 2008)
The Little Toy Shop by Frances Wolfe (Tundra | October 14, 2008)
The Nutcracker by Stephanie Spinner (Random House Children's Publishing | October 14, 2008)
Twelve Hidden Days of Christmas by Macky Pamintuan (Sterling | October 7, 2008)
Drummer Boy by Loren Long (Penguin Young Reader Group | October 7, 2008)
A Pirate’s Night Before Christmas: A Visit From Sir Peggedy by Philip Yates (Sterling | October 7, 2008)
Christmas Baby by Sally Ann Wright (Thomas Nelson Publishers | September 23, 2008)
The Lump of Coal by Lemony Snicket (HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS | September 22, 2008)
Christmas Cookies by Amy K. Rosenthal (HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS | September 22, 2008)
A Very Marley Christmas by Josh Grogan (HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS | September 22, 2008)
T’was the Day Before Christmas by Brenda Seabrooke (Penguin Young Reader Group | September 16, 2008)
Little Bunny Finds Christmas by Pirkko Vainio (NordSud Verlag AG | September 16, 2008)
The Night Before Christmas by Jan Brett (Penguin Young Reader Group | September 16, 2008)
The Gift of Magi by O. Henry (Candlewick Press | September 9, 2008)
Merry Christmas, Ollie! by Oliver Dunrea (Houghton Mifflin Company | August 27, 2008)
When Posey Peeked at Christmas by Ann Dixon (Albert Whitman & Company | August 19, 2008)

First Christmas

My First Christmas by Lois Rock (Lion UK | November 1, 2008)
Humphrey’s First Christmas by Carol Heyer (Retail Products LLC | October 2, 2008)
My First Christmas by Tomie dePaola (Penguin Young Rdrs Merch | September 16, 2008)
The First Christmas by Juliet David (Kregel Publications | September 15, 2008)
The Very First Christmas by Juliet David (Kregel Publications | September 15, 2008)

Santa Claus

Mrs. Claus Explains It All: (At Last) Answers to the Questions Real Kids Ask! by Christi Love (Sourcebooks | November 1, 2008)
When Santa Turned Green by Victoria Perla (Thomas Nelson Publishers | October 14, 2008)
Just the Job for Santa by Kate Lee (MacMillan UK | October 10, 2008)
What Santa Can’t Do by Douglas Wood (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | October 7, 2008)
Priscilla and the Great Santa Search by Nathaniel Hobbie (Little, Brown & Company | October 1, 2008)
When Santa Lost His Ho! Ho! Ho! by Laura Rader (HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS | September 29, 2008)
Santa’s Snow Kitten by Sue Stainton (HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS | September 22, 2008)
A Present for Santa Claus by David Wood (Candlewick Press | September 9, 2008)
Are You Grumpy, Santa? by Gregg Spiridellis (Hyperion Books For Children | September 1, 2008)
What Does Mrs. Claus Do? by Kate Wharton (Tricycle | June 6, 2008)

Snow and Snowmen

Sam the Snowman by Susan Winget (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. | September 29, 2008)
Snow Party by Harriet Ziefert (HANDPRINT RAGGED BEAR | August 15, 2008)
The Annual Snowman’s Ball by Mark Kimball (Retail Products LLC | January 25, 2008)
The Best Snowman by Margaret Nash (Capstone Press | January 16, 2008)

Reindeer

Reindeer Christmas by Mark K. Moulton (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | October 7, 2008)
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer by Alan Benjamin (Random House Children's Books | August 12, 2008)

Nicole Skutelnik - Nicole is an avid reader and lover of books, particular teen and young-adult fiction. At an early age, she decided to turn her passion ...