A Christmas books tradition

The excitement building up about Christmas is understated but reaching an almost unberarable pitch at Petrona Towers, on this longest shortest day of the year and only four more days to go. At the moment the girls are out for a day at their old childminders' house; later on they will all go to see a panotmime, "Peter Pan". So all is quiet and peaceful here just now. Although I should probably be upstairs wrapping up presents or whipping together a few dozen mince pies, I am in fact reading (very belatedly) about a million blog posts.

I loved reading this one: dovegreyreader scribbles: Our Christmas Books in which dovegreyreader writes about the pile of Christmas books she brings out each year for a nostalgic read. I am afraid I haven't initiated this tradition here with the books that the girls have enjoyed reading when very young and as they became older as I never thought of it, although we do usually all read together  "A Child's Christmas in Wales" each year.

Do you have books that you read each Christmastime?

Comments

[Tom]

I am fairly certain that unless you live in Australia or somewhere south of the Equator, today is the shortest day of the year, and not the longest. Or more accurately since today will include 24 hours as usual, it is the day with the least amount of sun.

[Maxine]

There you go, Tom, some bloggers will do anything to get some traffic to their sites! (Thanks for pointing out my stupid mistake, I have corrected it with a strike out just to save anyone else the hassle of pointing it out via the spam filter....)

[Clare]

Raymond Brigg's Father Christmas picture books (or maybe I should call them 'graphic novels' heh) are still hugely popular in the Hodmandod household - and as for 'A Child's Christmas in Wales' - well that takes me back to my own childhood and something called the Leicester Welsh children's party...of which I now feel the need to say much more, but not here, perhaps.

[Tom]

Since I was obnoxious enough to correct you I should add least answer your question. Every year I read "A Christmas Carol". I have been doing that for something like 35 years without fail. I also read "Gift of the Magi".