We did movies, what are your favorite holiday books?

As kids my family took turns reading pages of “The Night Before Christmas” aloud, then one parent would tuck me in and read “The Polar Express.”

Other favorites are “Hurry Home Grandma,” “Max’s Christmas,” and “Angelina’s Christmas”
Max and Angelina of “Max’s Dragon Shirt” and “Angelina Ballerina” fame, respectively.

There was this book about a man and he had a pet cat, there was something about fruitcake in it. I am dying over here trying to remember the name of it.

I don’t really have a favorite.

I do have an incredible weakness for any books with Christmas themes.

I think it stems from wanting to exstend the fantasy that Christmas is a time of fun and play and love and happiness. There is never stress or misunderstanding in books with Christmas themes. If there is, it is always resolved by Christmas Day.

The Winter’s Tale.

@absalom Chris van Allsburg?

The Dark is Risng by Susan Cooper. It’s the second volume in a young adult fantasy series that I love and frequently re-read around the hollidays. Very English and atmospheric and magical. The series is based on the Arthurian legends and deals with the struggle between the Dark and the Light.

@janbb Thanks. I am going to look for this series. I have never read it. What is the title of the first volume?

@Marina The series is called “The Dark is Rising Sequence” and the first book is called Over Sea, Under Stone. The first book is a little more juvenile than the others; the series really becomes powerful as it progresses. Some great dog stuff in it too. PM me if you read it and we can discuss; as I said, it’s one of my favorites.

The Grinch :)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, of course

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@RedPowerLady yes, but I didn’t read the other responses until giving mine. :-P

Carl’s Christmas, one of the Good Dog Darl series.

And The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. LOL funny but a sweet message at the core.

@MrItty Well yours was better anyhow, it had a link! lol

@sliceswiththings: William Shakespare. :p

The Willows at Christmas
by William Horwood
Based on The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame

Mr.Toad, Mole, Badger and Ratty’s holiday yarn…

None
They were all generic and yawn inducing.

The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol.
It is interesting that I don’t remember that anyone said The Polar Express was their favorite Christmas movie.

Yeah because it’s one book that should never have been made into a movie, Hanks or no Hanks!!

I hate when I mention it and kids ask, “Oh, they made a book out of it?” NO THEY DID NOT!!

What? Polar Express was an awesome movie. Brilliant visually not to mention classicly lovely story

The Polar Express @RedPowerLady I loathed the movie, I couldn’t even get through the whole thing.
Arthur’s Perfect Christmas

Why did you hate the movie? Seriously I have no idea why someone would hate it. But I will premise this by saying I never read the book beforehand.

The book was just so wonderful and perfect, the movie seemed so garish and over done by comparison. All that they added to flesh out the story, the dance scenes and Tom Hanks playing all the parts, it was just too much for me. I was also not a fan of that particular computer generated animation.

Aha. That makes sense. To me, who had never heard the story or read the book , it was ‘magical’, lol. I mean ‘magical’ as an adult would experience it. But I certainly see your points. Now I didn’t go to the xmas movie thread but my alltime favorite is the classic christmas carol, any version. Although I like the original Santa Clause as well.

@RedPowerLady That’s exactly my point, the book is just so wonderful that I want it to have all the spotlight. I’m not opposed to the quality of the movie, just the existence.
I recommend reading the book.

@sliceswiththings Okay I must read the book now. But I have to find the original and not the movie copy. I don’t suppose that’d be difficult.