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Holiday Favorites
What is your favorite holiday book or tradition?
Send your submission to CCF!
 Each year, during the holiday season, we ask site visitors to send us their favorite books and traditions we can post to the CCF site. Click to see the list of favorites we've already received and use the submission form to send us your own that we can add to the list.
Farolitos of Christmas
Holiday Favorite: 1107
 "This story describes the Christmas traditions of the people of New Mexico against the backdrop of a family waiting for a soldier to return. Traditions include lighting farolitos, sometimes also called luminarios, to light the way for the Holy Family, the making of tamales, and Las Posadas (a play)." --Deborah Martinez Martinez
The Littlest Angel
Holiday Favorite: 1107
 "This is a sweet story about Heaven's little angel who misses his time on Earth. The gift this littlest one gives to the Baby Jesus is the most treasured. I just like the idea that the simplest, most heartfelt things are the greatest treasures, in heaven and here." --Deborah Martinez Martinez
Little House in the Big Woods
Holiday Favorite: 1107
 "I love this story about a small cozy moment in a diner seen through a young girl's eyes on Christmas Eve. It reminds me that wonderful accidents happen all the time, that we need to keep our eyes open in order to discover them." --Catherine Terry
Children Of Christmas
Holiday Favorite: 1007
 "I love this story about a small cozy moment in a diner seen through a young girl's eyes on Christmas Eve. It reminds me that wonderful accidents happen all the time, that we need to keep our eyes open in order to discover them." --Caroline Stutson
How Murray Saved Christmas
Holiday Favorite: 1205
 "The illustrations are delightful. The colors are vivid and a little shocking. The text is wonderfully funny. It deserves to be read aloud--preferable giving Murray a New York accent if you can manage it. When I read it aloud to my middle school students, I usually have them in stitches by the end of the book." --Kelly Michaelis.
The Polar Express
Holiday Favorite: 1205
 This story really spreads the magic of Christmas. It features a jingle bell that can be purchased inexpensively, and when the story is read aloud, kids can hold the story's magic in their hands and then put it on their tree as a reminder." --Susan Rust, a writer and photographer from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The Snowman
Holiday Favorite: 1205
 "It is a lovely story of friendship won and lost." --Sandy Carlson,
a writer Battle Creek, Michigan.
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
Holiday Favorite: 1204
 "This has long been a family favorite, even though it lacks the flash of more recent titles. The story is simple and satisfying. A variety of animals enjoy Mr. Willowby's too-tall tree as the top continues to be cut off, discarded, then used again by a new family." --Grace Ruth, Children's Materials Selection Specialist, San Francisco Public Library.
The Polar Express
Holiday Favorite: 1204
I began reading this book to my daughter on Christmas Eve when she was a young child. She is now 27. We kept reading it every year to her brothers. They are now 19 and 18. We still read this book every year to our youngest son who is 8." --Evelyn Lucas, a full time mom and homemaker and former legal secretary from Nolensville, Tennessee.
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