13 Best Holiday Books for Preschool and Kindergarten

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Today is my absolute favorite time of the year today I get to share with you my top 13 books about holidays for preschoolers so let's get started. 

Winter holidays are back in the nation’s classrooms, and that means that families are getting together once more for special events. 

Besides the obvious joys of spending time with your family, there are also huge benefits to making the most of this holiday season. 

A great way to make the most of your winter holidays and get the most out of your family and friends is to make sure you get the very best winter holidays books for preschool and kindergarten. 

We will be reading books and watching movies, but we will also be using some of these best holiday books for preschoolers to read and teach our children during the winter holidays. 

This is a great time to read the best winter holiday books for preschoolers, read that your children know and love.

the first book I want to share is this book right here it is a current favorite and it is called blizzard it is written and illustrated by John Rocco and he actually is the author and illustrator of the very popular book "blackout" as well. 

let me tell you a few things you can do with this book first and foremost this story is written about a real story when Jon Rocco was 10 years old and it's about the blizzard of 1978 where they got 40 inches of snow in two days now up here in Massachusetts we are used to our fair share of blizzards. 

and the way john Rocco writes this story in the illustrations he uses a kind of takes anybody and just puts you right in the main character's shoes it is just beautifully written and students really enjoy that it was based on a true story the book starts on a Monday and actually throughout this story john Rocco puts Sunday, Monday, Tuesday he will put the day of the week somewhere in the illustration so you can really get a sense of the sequence of events that happens throughout the story so this is a great thing for students to kind of realize what changes each day and it's a great author's craft lesson to use. 

you can see the way john Rocco told his story and how things change over time now spoiler alert at the end of the story the little boy who is featured is john Rocco and is the only one light enough to actually go over the snow he has to put tennis racquets on his feet and he takes a sled and he goes to the corner market because it's been five days and their family is running out of food and so are a lot of the neighbors and the plows haven't come so he actually has to go on a little trek and get food for his family and his neighbors and something.

 

but then also before the little boy goes on his track he makes a little list and I think one of the things he writes down is like a candy bar has a little star next to it and I'm guessing that's for himself but he writes a list of what his family needs from the store.

Another fun one that I feel like you see all over the kindergarten first-grade world is sneezy the snowman by Maureen Wright and there's a reason for that this is just fun it's a rhyming book it's easy to read and the kids just love it basically it's about a snowman right here who gets sneezy because he's always so cold and so when he's cold he needs something to warm him up. 

so he'll drink some hot cocoa and then what do you think happens when the snowman drinks hot cocoa he melts and the kids have to build him up again and he keeps you know getting colder and colder and so he keeps trying to find ways to warm himself up and melting so it's a cute little book the kids love it.

all right for my next book, I'm going to share one that I like to use if you're teaching a Christmases or holidays around the world unit so you'll have to really think about your own school and district and what you are or are not you know allowed to teach 

but if you do any sort of unit on comparing different holidays or Christmases around the world then the legend of the poinsettia by Tommy de pala is a beautiful book to read. 

this is actually a retelling of a Mexican folk tale that was passed down from generation to generation and basically, throughout the story it describes the origination of using poinsettias around Christmas time so like I said it's a beautiful book.