It’s Advent season and we are loving every minute of it! I am a few days late in getting this posted but I love sitting down with the children each night and reading from our Jesse
Tree Advent devotional. Today I want to share with you our reading list for the
next 28 days of Advent.
This idea of reading children’s books is not my own but
that of Jessica who blogs at Shower of Roses. She has even made homemade labels
to put on the outside of the wrapping paper. I didn’t use ribbon this year but
I do love the look of the solid brown kraft paper. The wrapped books are stored
on our tiny bookcase next to our big tree this year.
Each night after reading from our Jesse Tree Devotional
one child gets to unwrap the book and then I read it aloud. The same child then
puts the Jesse Tree ornament onto our Advent tree in our front library.
Here
are the 28 books that I have wrapped up for the 2016 Advent bookshelf. The
books that we don’t have in our personal collection are marked with an (L)
because I found them at our local library.
November
27: {1st Sunday of Advent}The Story of Christmas
November
28: The
Gift of the Magi
November
29: Little Blue Truck’s Christmas
November
30: Waiting for Christmas (L)
December
1: How Many Miles to Bethlehem?
December
2: The Remarkable Christmas of the Cobbler’s Sons
December
3: The Christmas Tree Alphabet Book
December
4: {2nd Sunday of Advent} The Gift of the Christmas Cookie (L)
December
5: The Legend of the Candy Cane
December
6: {St. Nicholas Day}
Saint Nicholas and the Nine Gold
Coins
December
7: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
December
8: The Legend of the Christmas Rose (L)
December
9: The Sweet Smell of Christmas
December
10: The Pine Tree Parable
December
11: {3rd Sunday of Advent/Gaudete Sunday} An orange for Frankie (L)
December
12: The Polar Express
December
13: Lucia: Saint of Light
December
14: The
Christmas Bird
December 15: The Christmas
Story
December
16: Nine Days to Christmas (L)
December
17: The Stable Where Jesus Was Born (L)
December
18: {4th Sunday of Advent / O Adonai} If He Had Not Come
December
19: The legend of the
poinsettia (L)
December
20: The first
Christmas stocking (L)
December
21: The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan
Toomey
December
22: Guess Who’s Coming To Santa’s for Dinner?
December
23: O Holy Night
December
24: The Night Before Christmas
We are also incorporating Unwrapping the Greatest Gift: A Family Celebration of Christmas {not an affliate link} into our Morning Time Recitations. I LOVE this book! Each day in December you read the pages for the day and count down to the days of Christmas. Each story ties into Jesus' family tree and everyday you will begin to unwrap the greatest Gift as you trace the family line and heritage of our own forever family, within the family of God.
Out of the stump of David’s family will grow a shoot—
yes, a new Branch bearing fruit from the old root...
In that day the heir to David’s throne
will be a banner of salvation to all the world.
The nations will rally to him,
and the land where he lives will be a glorious place.
~ Isaiah 11:1,10 {NLT}
Do you have any special plans for Advent this year? I would love to hear about your family traditions.
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