Charlotte Mason Advent Traditions
We are so incredibly excited for Advent this year!
Preparing A Gentle Advent for you has warmed our hearts so much toward the coming season. We are delighted that so many of our dear friends and readers have decided to join us, and there is room at our virtual Advent celebration for your family, too!
These living literature books are a Charlotte Mason inspired reading list and are all books recommended to help your family experience a delight filled, character building, historically rich Advent and Christmas season. Many of these take more than a day to read or listen to together, so I only included 20 instead of 24. Some of them are harder to find, but well worth the effort and since they are available used, it is easier to justify buying more 😉
For our family, we select our Christmas books for the season and place them around the base of our tree which usually goes up the day after Thanksgiving. We have made this a tradition in our home that involves carols, hymns, baking, and homemade hot cocoa. We add a new book every Saint Nicholas Day. Because we follow the 4 gift rule, something you want/need/wear/read, we wait till Christmas Eve to put presents under the tree.
Creating an atmosphere of love and learning only sweetens the beauty of the season. Where they were available, I included audiobook versions as well since the holidays can mean lots of busy hands and lots of travel. I can’t wait to hear which ones your family adds to your holiday reading this year!
Living Books for Advent and Christmas
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol Audiobook
The Crippled LambThe Crippled Lamb [Board book]
The Legend of Saint NicholasSaint Nicholas figurine
Christmas In The Big House, Christmas In The Quarters (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
The Tailor of GloucesterThe Tailor of Gloucester Audiobook
The Story of the Other Wise Man
The Gift of the MagiThe Gift of the Magi Audibook
Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas TruceSilent Night: The Remarkable 1914 Christmas Truce Audiobook
Letters From Father ChristmasLetters From Father Christmas Audiobook
A Song for Young King Wenceslas
Christmas Blessings Giveaway
Another year, another Christmas! The most wonderful time of the year is upon us. And some of the best things about this time of year is that it’s a time of gratitude, togetherness, and celebration.
I have teamed up with some pretty generous bloggers for the 9th annual Christmas Blessings Giveaway to bless FIVE families this year. In the past we have had two winners for this giveaway, but this year we wanted to give to even more families – we are giving away $200 gift cards to 5 families! Each winner will get a $200 gift card to wherever they choose – a restaurant, clothing store, grocery store, online retailer – any place that offers gift cards!
There are lots of entry options in the Rafflecopter form below – the more you enter, the better your chance of winning! I know it can seem tedious and time consuming to go through all the entries, but isn’t a chance at $200 worth it? I think it is! Plus, all of these amazing bloggers donated their own money towards the prizes, so this giveaway wouldn’t be possible without them. I hope you’ll take the time to check out each one. Who knows, maybe you will find some new blogs to follow.
The giveaway will run from Monday, November 14th through Wednesday, November 23rd (ends at 11:59pm EST). Winner will be notified by email shortly after the giveaway ends and will have 48 hours to respond to claim the prize or another winner will be drawn. By entering this giveaway, you agree to be added to the email lists of the participating bloggers. Please be sure to read the Rafflecopter terms and conditions upon entering.
I think we’d add Apple Tree Christmas to this list!!
Very helpful list! I will definitely use it to help me plan our read aloud time in December. Thank you!
Great list! I have several of these, but found a few I will definitely be adding to our collection.
Santa sent me an early Christmas gift- a beautiful grey & black striped cat. She had been abandoned by her drug addicted owners, so I scooped her up and got her inside out of the pouring rain. “Nova” is now my Sophie.
We are taking the week before Christmas to learn about and experience all things related to a Pioneer Christmas. Thank you for the great list of books that expand our options to make this upcoming week even better!
I always appreciate having a good book list to choose from.
What a wonderful list of books for the Advent season! Some I know and others are new to me! I do wish I could get them all that’s for sure! I so appreciate your recommendations and your thoughtful posts/content! We have always enjoyed your curriculum!
They all look like wonderful reads!
Everyday grace is just what my tween and I need during an increasingly challenging time in our home. Hopefully, a good booklist, along with seeking God’s guidance and some reestablished quality time together as mother and daughter, will pave the way back to happier times and maintaining better habits. 💔 🙏🏻 ✝️ ❤️🩹
This list is getting me excited about Christmas! There are some on here that we have and love and some new ones for us to check out, Thanks!
Hi! Thank you so much for the community of Everyday Graces! I’ve been so blessed by your resources and they’ve helped me learn a new way of teaching my children and we all love it!
I entered the family giveaway and hope to win. This year has been very hard for our family, like many others and I pray that the 2 families in most need will be blessed by this giveaway. Thank you to all who have contributed to this and may you all have a very Merry Christmas!
Wonderful selection of books here and thank you all for such a blessing.
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Super excited to include some new living books into our holiday homeschool season this year!
My 9-year-old son and I just finished a wonderful new-to-us Christmas-themed book called “The Christmas Barn.” It is about a poor farm family in Appalachia in 1930. The 12-year-old daughter is the narrator, and the loving family’s daily life and care for each other are portrayed very well. My son loved it so much that he wants me to buy it for our own collection. I loved it, too. This book has put a lot of joy and laughter into our 2020 Christmas season, which it definitely needed. I highly recommend it.
Thank you for offering this.
Thank you for compiling this list and for orchestrating such a generous gift! It will be a blessing to the winners, I am sure.
I give my children each a book on Christmas with a personalized message and the date inside. A few on this list are already on our shelves and I cannot wait to find new gems to add to my Christmas books list. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing this wonderful book list! I had no idea that J.R.R. Tolkien had written any books about Christmas, so I am very excited to find that one!
This is a wonderful list of books! I just put many of them on hold at the library! Thank you for this awesome giveaway too!
I love this list of Christmas books – I’m hoping my library will have them in stock. 🙂
Looks like I need to do some shopping! ??
I can’t wait to read some on this list!
Love this list! I definitely have not heard of some of them yet 🙂
I love really good Christmas books. How cool to have so many in one place!
Great list! I definitely will be sharing this because there are so many “less than” books for the Advent season.
Love the Christmas Book List..gets me in the Spirit just thinking about these!
What a great list of Christmas books! We have a handful of these, and I will be ordering more from our library soon. I have been looking for some simple ways to celebrate and talk about the real reason for Christmas with our son, and I am sure he will love having these in his morning basket.
Lovely site!
Thanks for the list of books and the give away!
I would love to win these great Advent books for our homeschool. Thank you for this give away.
This is a great list! Thank you for sharing! I am new to celebrating advent, so I was excited to find your site!
Hi Kim! We’ve been learning more and celebrating more for about 9 years now and every Advent is so full of joy. Welcome to the celebration! Have a great week and thanks for stopping by 🙂
thank you for this book list! Many are well loved from my childhood but also so many new ones I can’t wait to find and share with my own kids! Quality book recommendations are truly a treasure.
I’m so glad you found some new ones. We love sharing good books 🙂 Have a great week!
This is a great list–We have done many of these, but a few new ideas to add to the list are always welcome. I have a list for moms on my site. I love Van Dyke–have you read “Keeping Christmas” by him?
I haven’t read that one but I am going to look for it! Thank you for stopping by.
great list of books for the Christmas spirit! Thanks for sharing them.
I loved seeing this post. Every book cover a gem!
The Tailor of Gloucestor immediately became one of my favorites when I came across it in a collection of Beatrix Potter stories given to us. I bring it out every Christmas season now. St. Nicholas brings us new books each December 6 too!
We love adding new books on Saint Nicholas Day 🙂 The Potter stories are always a hit here, too. Thanks for stopping by!
Super list! Thank you!!
What a wonderful list of Christmas books!
Thank you, Susan!
This list is fantastic! Some I have read but many I haven’t. I am definitely looking forward to “Letters From Father Christmas” by Tolkien. Thank you also for the audiobook links too. We will be listening around our Woodstove this winter!
I can’t wait to hear what you think, Clare! Thank you for stopping by!
This is a fantastic list of Christmas books. I know it probably was obvious story book, but I had forgotten about the Christmas Carol. I am going to have to add that to our read aloud time for Christmas!
Thank you, Angela! Yes, it’s one of my favorites and it’s told so well. I hope you enjoy it!