Welcome to tygertale’s third (THIRD!) advent calendar. Each day I’ll be revealing a christmas or winter themed children’s book ranging from seasonal classics, through obscure vintage finds to brand new holiday favourites.
December 1st – Der Struwwelpeter by Dr. Heinrich Hoffman
December 2nd – Snow by Sam Usher
December 3rd – One Thousand Christmas Beards by Roger Duvoisin
December 4th – Seasons by John Buningham
December 5th – The Fish in the Bathtub by Eion Colfer and Peter Bailey
December 6th – My Year by Roald Dahl
December 7th – Biff, Chip and Kipper’s Christmas Adventure
December 8th – The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
December 9th – Once Upon a Winters Night by Isabelle Arsenault
December 10th – Lotta’s Christmas Surprise by Astrid Lindgren
December 11th – Merry Christmas Ernest and Celestine by Gabrielle Vincent
December 12th – A Merry Moomin Christmas
December 13th – Church Mice at Christmas by Graham Oakley
December 14th – Ladybird Stories of Our Christmas Customs
December 15th – The Twelve Days of Christmas by George Buchanan
December 16th – Tom Fobble’s Day by Alan Garner
December 17th – The Night Before Christmas illustrated by Tomie dePaola
December 18th – Eloise at Christmastime by Kay Thompson
December 19th – Can it be True by Susan Hill
December 20th – The Christmas Truce by Carol Ann Duffy
December 21st – Mutants, Mayhem, Mistletoe: 2000AD at Christmastime
December 22nd – Barbapapa’s Christmas
December 23rd – Olivia Helps with Christmas by Ian Falconer
December 24th – A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
Thanks for everyone who’s made suggestions this year, I’m hoping to get enough together for next year, so keep them coming via @tygertale on twitter or in the comments below. Happy Christmas.
Tyger Tale 
I do enjoy your advent calendars and often end up adding several of the books to my list of ones to investigate further, so thank you.
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What a treasure trove! — not only the stories themselves, but your thoughtful reviews. I suspect that Christmas books, even more so than most children’s books, are vulnerable to being being treated as adorable novelties. (At least that’s my perspective as an American. I’ve noticed that the British books in my Christmas collection are much less insipid in the first place.) At any rate, it’s so refreshing to see these books taken seriously.
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That’s great to hear – though there are acres of insipid British children’s books too! I had thought I’d run out of Christmas books pretty quickly but I’m still going after three years – think I might have enough for next year, including some great American titles.
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I’m sure the insipid books never make it across the Atlantic, in either direction!
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