Get into the holiday spirit with these new picture books:
We have multiple illustrated editions of The Night before Christmas, the traditional poem by Clement Clarke Moore, including our newest acquisition, illustrated by Jan Brett in her trademark style.
For fans of Tomie dePaola’s Strega Nona, Strega Nona’s Gift presents holiday season celebrations in a Calabrian village. Big Anthony can’t resist Strega Nona’s cooking, even when it is for the animals!
For a holiday picture book that involves bad behavior followed by a well-learned lesson, read A Bad Kitty Christmas by Nick Bruel, featuring the further escapades of Bad Kitty.
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson, which adapts to picture book format her classic chapter book of the same title, features the irrepressible Herdmans who take over the pageant but then “surprise everyone when they capture the true meaning of Christmas.”
The Perfect Christmas by Eileen Spinelli contrasts two families at Christmas, one perfect and one decidedly not, but they come together to celebrate when it begins to snow.
The Golem’s Latkes by Eric A. Kimmel is a Hanukkah tale involving a golem, a man of clay, made by the rabbi, which keeps working at what he is told to do until instructed to stop. The new housemaid sets the golem to work preparing latkes for Hanukkah with disastrous results.
Nathan Blows Out the Hanukkah Candles by Tami Lehman-Wilzig is a contemporary Hanukkah story about how the parents and brother of a boy with autism include him in their celebration of the holiday.
And more … Come into the library this month to browse our collection of holiday books!
