Christmas
Browse our collection of Christmas kids books, fairy tales, poems, bedtime stories, short stories and novels. Use the filters to narrow your choices, or read our full article for inspiration.
Christmas Reading Online
Over 159 Christmas stories, books and poems about topics like Santa Claus, Christmas Trees, Christmas Gifts. The stories are suitable for kids of all ages and the spirit of Christmas is weaved through them.
The Elves and the Shoemaker is a popular story for children of preschool and kindergarten age. It’s a beautiful fairy tale about reciprocity. The poem ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas is handsomely illustrated and captures the magic of Christmas. This work by Clement Clarke Moore has been loved by generations of children.
For the slightly older kids that fancy a Christmas-themed bedtime story, we can recommend our short version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Scrooge hates Christmas until a series of events make it so that he doesn’t. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus takes us on a 20 chapter tour through the life of Santa Claus. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is of course a must-read classic.
The Legend of the Christmas Spider and The Legend of The Christmas Tree are short and relaxing legends. They’re particularly suitable for story time in the class as well.
For our more advanced readers we can recommend the full version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens or popular short stories like The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Tree or Christmas Jenny.
People looking for poetic reading during the holiday season can enjoy Christmas poems like Little Tree by E. E. Cummings, Mistletoe by Walter de La Mare, Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow or Love Came Down at Christmas by Christina Georgina Rossetti.