A few months ago our daughter discovered that our two little men, Christmas and Snowy, had help with the book Advent Calendars that Story Snug has done for the previous two years so now it’s time for something different – a book tree Advent Calendar.
This year Christmas and Snowy will watch as every day a different Christmas book is unwrapped. I’ve made a Christmas Tree Book Advent Calendar and have wrapped English and German Christmas books – some new, some old and some from the library. We have Santa, we have Mog, we have The Jolly Christmas Postman, aliens and two Christmas stories by Astrid Lindgren, a current favourite author here.
Here’s the full list of books that our daughter will be unwrapping;
- Jingle Bells by Mick Inkpen
- The Little Christmas Tree by Rachel Elliot, Vicki Gausden and Corina Fletcher
- Is It Christmas Yet? by Jane Chapman
- The Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
- Stick Man by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
- Aliens Love Panta Claus by Claire Freedman and Ben Sort
- Mr Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry
- The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore and Mark Marshall
- Mog’s Christmas by Judith Kerr
- Merry Christmas, Splat by Rob Scotton
- Lucy & Tom At Christmas by Shirley Hughes
- Pippi plündert den Weihnachtsbaum by Astrid Lindgren and Rolf Rettich
- The Twelve Days of Christmas illustrated by Britta Teckentrup
- Snow Bunny’s Christmas Wish by Rebecca Harry
- Lucy’s Secret Reindeer by Anne Booth and Sophy Williams
- Waiting for Santa by Steve Metzger and Alison Edgson
- The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
- The Fairytale Hairdresser and The Sugar Plum Fairy by Abie Longstaff and Lauren Beard
- When It Snows by Richard Collingridge
- Weihnachten in Bullerbü by Astrid Lindgren and Ilon Wikland
- Happy Hooves Oh! Oh! Oh! by A. Bogie and Rebecca Elliot
- Katie’s London Christmas by James Mayhew
- Millis schönstes Weihnachtsfest by Marni McGee and Gavin Scott
- A Christmas Story by Brian Wildsmith
The book tree Advent Calendar is for our daughter to enjoy but we also have a very special Story Snug Advent Calendar for you this year. We’re very excited about it and more will be revealed in a blogpost on November 30th – lots of wonderful people are helping us to bring you a very special picture book Advent Calendar…
This is a brilliant idea and it’d be their evening story too, I’ll use your idea and try and find the same books my son would love this. Great post! #poclo
I hope that you and your son have fun with your Book Advent Calendar. Make lots of time to wrap up all the books, it takes longer than you think!
What a wonderful and worthwhile advent calendar – so much better than chocolate 🙂 Thank you for linking to #PoCoLo x
We’re not big chocolate eaters in our house so this Advent Calendar is perfect for us 🙂
I love this! What a great way to share books with children over Christmas. And what books! Some wonderful picks there 🙂
Thank you! I would love somebody to make me one of these 🙂
This is a lovely idea! I have heard of a book under the tree for each day, but making them into a tree advent calendar is brilliant! #PoCoLo
I can’t take credit for the idea! I’ve seen the trees before but everybody’s style is different.
What a lovely idea! I always make sure that everyone in the family has a book in their Christmas stocking too 🙂 #readwithme
A book is a lovely present for a Christmas stocking, I always struggle to choose just one!
We have a book advent tree too! How excited are you for tomorrow? I can’t wait – do you think I could open the first one at the midnight feed? #readwithme
I’m really excited, unlike Book Bairn my daughter hasn’t seen hers year and has no idea what I have been planning 🙂
Aw, what a lovely idea! Might have to try this myself when M is a little older 🙂 #readwithme
I can’t wait until my daughter sees this tomorrow morning 🙂
we’ve done this too, can’t wait to get reading with the girls. great choices! thanks for sharing with #readwithme
I can’t wait to see my daughter’s face when she opens the parcels 🙂
What a clever idea. You haven’t got my boys favourite Xmas story though – Father Christmas needs a wee #readwithme
I’ve never read father Christmas needs a wee although I’ve read reviews – it sounds very amusing 🙂
I love the idea of advent books like this, I wish I’d thought to do it when mine were young #Readwithme
Oh, such a cute idea! I have a few parent friends who have wrapped a book for each day, but I never saw them stacked to make a tree. How clever! #christmascorner
I saw a book Advent Calendar stacked up like a snowman on a blogpost, it looked really cute 🙂
I love the idea of a book advent calendar – so much better than the ones you can buy with the little chocolates in. Some fab books here too 🙂
Thanks for linking up to #ChristmasCorner
Debbie
It’s been a lot of fun and I wrapped the books up so long ago that I get a surprise each morning too 🙂