Holiday Picture Books

I've been reading about lots of holiday book ideas - particularly thinking about "An Advent Calendar of Books." (which I found on Delightful Children's Books) I've always loved Christmas picture books, giving one to Laura on her December birthday for years and years, even as an adult (I think last year was the first year I didn't.  I wonder why?).  So I'm going to keep a list of the holiday books I've read, and try to read more!  Christmas.  Day of the Dead.  Halloween.  Thanksgiving.  Hanukkah (I do work at a Hebrew Day School, after all....).

Christmas

Agee, Jon - Little Santa
Appelt, Kathi - Merry Christmas, Merry Crow
Bastianich, Lidia - Nonna Tell Me a Story

Daly, Niki - What's Cooking, Jamela?  

Donaldson, Julia - Stick Man

Donovan, Jane Monroe - Small Medium &  Large
Drummond, Ree - Charlie and the Christmas Kitty
Duvall, John - The Great Spruce
Evans, Lezlie - Finding Christmas 
Frazee, Marla - Santa Claus The World's Number One Toy Expert

Hardie, Jill - The Sparkle Box 

Lewis, J. Patrick & Beth Zappitello - First Dog's White House Christmas
Lin, Grace - Robert's Snow 
Mader, C. Roger - Stowaway in a Sleigh
Major, Kevin - Aunt Olga's Christmas Postcards

O'Connor, Jane - Fancy Nancy, Splendiferous Christmas
Polacco, Patricia - An Orange for Frankie
..........Gifts of the Heart
..........Trees of the Dancing Goats, The
Reynolds, Peter H. - The Smallest Gift of Christmas

Pulver, Robin - Christmas Kitten, Home at Last

Rice, James - The Cowboy Night Before Christmas

Sabuda, Robert - Winter in White

Schachner, Judy - Willy and May, A Christmas Story

Shannon, David - It's Christmas, David!
Shulevtiz, Uri - Dusk
Smallman, Steve - Santa is Coming to Tucson
Stanton, Melissa - My Pen Pal, Santa
Strand, Keith - Grandfather's Christmas Tree 
Toht, Patricia - Pick a Pine Tree 
Underwood, Deborah - Here Comes Santa Cat
Wilson, Karma - Bear Stays Up for Christmas

Winter/Snow/Solstice

Aylesworth, Jim -  The Mitten
Burton, Virginia Lee - Katy and the Big Snow
Christiansen, Candace - The Mitten Tree
Donovan, Jane Monroe - Small Medium & Large
Gerber, Carol - Winter Trees
Hader, Berta & Elmer - The Big Snow
Harper, Lee - Snow! Snow! Snow!
Lin, Grace - Robert's Snow (There's a bit about Santa here, but it's MUCH more about snow!)
MacLachlan, Patricia - Snowflakes Fall
Neubecker, Robert - Winter is For Snow
Pfeffer, Wendy - The Shortest Day
Sabuda, Robert - Winter in White

Thanksgiving

Miller, Pat Zietlow - Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story

Day of the Dead

Click HERE for a separate entry for Day of the Dead

Joose, Barbara - Ghost Wings

Luenn, Nancy - A Gift for Abuelita

Morales, Yuyi - Just in Case
Thong, Roseanne Greenfield - Dia de Los Muertos

Winter, Jeanette - Calavera Abecedario

Halloween

Brown, Calef - Hallowilloween

Collins, Ross - Dear Vampa

Emberly, Ed - There Was An Old Monster

Gall, Chris - Substitute Creature

Moulton, Mark Kimball - The Very Best Pumpkin

Murray, Marjorie Dennis - Halloween Night

Pulver, Robin - Never Say Boo

Hanukkah

daCosta, Deborah - Hanukkah Moon

Edwards, Michelle - Papa's Latkes
Jenkins, Emily - All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah 
Polacco, Patricia - Trees of the Dancing Goats, The
Rosen, Michael - Our Eight Nights of Hanukkah

Passover

Kirkfield, Vivian -  Pippa's Passover Plate
Newman, Tracy - Around the Passover Table
Portnoy, Minda Avra - A Tale of Two Seders
Rappaport, Doreen - The Secret Seder
Snyder, Laurel - The Longest Night: A Passover Story
Weber, Elka - A Yankee at the Seder
Ziefert, Harriet - Passover

Sukkot
General Information about Sukkot
Hyde, Heidi Smith - Shanghai Sukkah

Taschlich

Schur, Susan - Taschlich at Turtle Rock