by Clement Clarke Moore

This title is intended for ages 3 to 8 years. Here is the classic and beloved story written by Clement Clarke Moore. It is illustrated with beautiful, traditional  watercolours by artist Donald Mills.

by Jan Pienkowski

This classic love story, which inspired the popular ballet that is danced to one of Tchaikovsky's most magical scores, is wonderfully retold by David Walser, in a direct translation from the original German story. Jan Pienkowski, master of illustration, brings the story vividly to life adding his own magic with exquisite illustrations on sparkling backgrounds. The finale is a multi-layered tableau of intricate laser-cut silhouettes, created in the style of traditional German papercraft. This beautiful and sumptuous novelty book is the ultimate Christmas gift.

By Jan Pienkowski

Experience the true spirit of Christmas with this rich celebration of the Christmas story. With words from the "King James Bible", the nativity story is brought gloriously to life with illuminated pages of silhouettes set against glowing colours. The beautiful design and gold highlights throughout make this a true classic and the perfect Christmas gift.

About the Author
Jan Pienkowski is a celebrated illustrator of children' s books. He has won the Greenaway Medal twice - for his illustration of Joan Aiken's The Kingdom Under the Sea and for Haunted House. Jan Lives in London

By Dick Bruna

Celebrate the holiday season every year with a Miffy-style rendition of this classic Christmas tale. In Christmas, Miffy creator Dick Bruna tells the story of Jesus's birth using his classic Miffy design elements and simple text. The book features bright colors and fun pictures that make it easy for children to identify people, animals, and objects and tell the story to themselves as they flip through the book. The extra wide layout provides big colorful illustrations perfect for young eyes.

"Letters from Father Christmas"

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien's children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful coloured drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christmas. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how all the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas's house into the dining-room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house! Sometimes the Polar Bear would scrawl a note, and sometimes Ilbereth the Elf would write in his elegant flowing script, adding yet more life and humour to the stories. No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by the inventiveness and 'authenticity' of Tolkien's "Letters from Father Christmas".

by Fiona Watts

Here is a long-awaited festive addition to the best-selling and award-winning touchy-feely series. The enduring appeal of Rachel Wells' illustrations and the opportunity to touch a variety of textures make these books baby and pre-school classics. Very young children will enjoy the bright and colourful illustrations while the different texture patches help develop sensory awareness.

by Jan Pienkowski

Part carousel, part shadow box, this elegant stand-alone Nativity book designed by a master paper engineer reflects all the wonder of Christmas and will be treasured for seasons to come. This is an absolutely amazing  book that made me gasp with surprise when I opened it, so unexpected was the beauty, craftsmanship and presentation of its contents. What was an even bigger surprise is that it isn't really a book at all, but a Christmas carousel that springs to life as you bend the spine until the hard covers meet at the back. Then you hang it up as the extraordinary piece of art that it is, telling the story of the Nativity through five exquisite cut-out silhouettes with words from the King James Bible.

About the Author
Jan Pienkowski, creator of the best-selling HAUNTED HOUSE pop-up book, is an illustrator and author and a winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal for outstanding illustration. He is also the creator of THE ANIMALS WENT IN TWO BY TWO: A NOAH'S ARK POP-UP BOOK. Jan Pienkowski lives in London.

by Ian Falconer

This was to be a different type of Christmas book. A book about how a family celebrates Christmas, and how a lot of family holiday traditions really revolve around preparations. In fact, the reason the book has such a personal feel to it is because many of the traditions that Olivia and her family celebrate were taken straight from Ian's childhood memories: Being asked to set the Christmas table was a big honor for Ian (as it is for Olivia in the book). The caroling by the piano, the "Santa watch," the order in which things were done (tree up Christmas Eve, dinner, caroling, hanging stockings), even the phrase "warming your trotters by the fire"--all of it has roots in the Falconer home. And since Ian never did catch a glimpse of Santa at Christmas, neither could Olivia. It's for the best, really. Olivia likes to be the true star of her books--Santa would have met his match.

By Dylan Thomas

In print for fifty years, this gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old from its very first edition.<.B>

Dylan Thomas, one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth century, captures a child's-eye view, and an adult's fond memories, of a magical time of presents, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, and in the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow.

"The piece continues to work beautifully, blending the mock heroics of childhood with enduring images of the annual rituals of the season.... The language is enchanting and the poetry shines with an unearthly radiance."—The New York Times

"In a voice more alluring than Circe's, Thomas recalls 'All the Christmases that roll down toward the two-tongued sea.'"—Publishers Weekly

"Surely this Christmas story ranks among the great experiences of the language."—Harper's Magazine

"If you'd rather not gather your holiday eve around the TV, then build a fire and try a new tradition fixed back in Wales.... How he laced so many lines with perfect imagery is beyond me...this book is a holiday pearl."—The Bloomsbury Review

"This is a story to stir one's own emotions, with recollections perhaps untapped since childhood."—Baltimore Evening SunBR>
"Try it for a break from violent robots."—The Providence Journal-Bulletin

by Brian Wildsmith

In this tale of Christ's birth from a child's point of view, Rebecca journeys from Nazareth to Bethlehem to reunite a lonesome young donkey with its mother, found braying happily in a humble stable. From the endearingly fuzzy baby donkey to the glorious gold stars and angel wings, this Greenaway Medalist's illustrations beautifully mix the simple and the sublime.

`Elaborately illustrated with magnificent gold illuminations, this gentle version of the Nativity captures all the wonder of the birth of Jesus.' Practical Parenting