(More) children's books for Christmas 🤶🏻

Notes From the Reading Nook: December 5

Hello, lovely people.

I’ve nothing to say up here today — and probably won’t for awhile because I’ve got some serious Stuff Going On, which I wrote about last week, to give you an idea of what you can expect from me in the coming months — but here’s a special glance at my weird facial expressions (and some extra book recommendations for Christmas 😊)

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• Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (my husband is reading this to our kids on the nights he puts them to bed and I can’t tell how it’s going — I told him not to pick this book; he picked it anyway, and everyone seems confused)

• The Yule Tomte and the Little Rabbits: A Christmas Story for Advent by Ulf Stark (I thought this might be the year my 9 and 7yo outgrew this one, but they made it abundantly clear that was crazy talk, when I asked, which is fine by me)

• Wish by Barbara O’Connor (this is our current audiobook in the car)

• Monday’s Troll by Jack Prelutsky (our current poetry at bedtime)

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Video roundup!

Titles mentioned today:

• Santa in the City by Tiffany D. Jackson, illustrated by Reggie Brown

• Merry Christmas, Red Truck by Kersten Hamilton, illustrated by Valerie Petrone

• Red & Lulu by Matt Tavares

🎄 If you’d like more recommendations…

• Download my first-ever Can we read? Children’s Picture Books for Christmas guide, featuring 32 pages’ worth of reviews covering 35 picture books for ages 0-10, published over a span of 55 years, including eight reviews that have never before been published in my newsletter.

• Read my 2023 special edition on Christmas, released last week

• Browse my Bookshop.org list, Books for Christmas

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Read good books and take good care 😘
Sarah

P.S. All Bookshop.org links are affiliate ones but nevertheless, I’ll keep telling you because I am afraid of lawyers and don’t want to invite them into my life unless it involves my receiving an enormous amount of money, preferably tax-free. (In case you are listening, Universe.)