By Lacey Gunter
Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone. It was a lovely time of gratitude and reflection. November is swiftly heading for the door as well. Hopefully your writing goals for the month are near completion or you are at least satisfied with your performance. I am right on schedule for completing SkADaMo and only a day behind on PiBoIdMo. Now it is time to move on to December and Christmas.
Families all over the western world are pulling out Christmas trees and wreaths and listening to carols as they decorate the house. Of all the holidays, Christmas is probably the most rich with tradition. These traditions can help to combat the growing wave in our society of trying to make Christmas all about the shopping and little about the sacred.
This year I am planning to start a new tradition in my family to try and keep the focus more on the birth of Christ and what it means to us.The idea was suggested to me by a dear friend and I fell in love with it immediately.
Each day in December, leading up to Christmas, we will pick a different picture book retailing of the birth of Christ or some aspect of it and read it together. I have already started picking books I plan to use. There are so many to pick from it is more than easy to find enough and to find the kind that suite your preferences. Here are some of the books I plan to use:
1. Tiny Baby Jesus, Written by Dandi Daley Mackall, Illustraated by Julia Noonan
2. A Child is Born, Written by Margaret Wise Brown, Illustrated by Floyd Cooper
3. The Third Gift, Written by Linda Sue Park, Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline
4. The Nativity, by Julie Vivas
5. Jacob's Gift, Written by Max Lucado, Illustrated by Robert Hunt
6. Humphrey's First Christmas, by Carol Heyer
7. We Were There: A Nativity Story,Written by Eve Bunting, Illustrated by Wendell Minor
8. Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale, Written by Martin Waddell, Illustrated by Jason Cockcroft
9. Baboushka and the Three Kings, Written by Ruth Robbins, Illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov
10. A Baby Born in Bethlehem, Written by Martha Whitmore Hickman, Illustrated by Giuliano Ferri
11. Christmas in the Barn, Written by Margaret Wise Brown, Illustrated by Diane Goode
12. The Story of Christmas, By Pamela Dalton
Anyone else have any great books about the birth of Jesus they would add to this list? I am really looking forward to this new tradition.
Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone. It was a lovely time of gratitude and reflection. November is swiftly heading for the door as well. Hopefully your writing goals for the month are near completion or you are at least satisfied with your performance. I am right on schedule for completing SkADaMo and only a day behind on PiBoIdMo. Now it is time to move on to December and Christmas.
Families all over the western world are pulling out Christmas trees and wreaths and listening to carols as they decorate the house. Of all the holidays, Christmas is probably the most rich with tradition. These traditions can help to combat the growing wave in our society of trying to make Christmas all about the shopping and little about the sacred.
This year I am planning to start a new tradition in my family to try and keep the focus more on the birth of Christ and what it means to us.The idea was suggested to me by a dear friend and I fell in love with it immediately.
Each day in December, leading up to Christmas, we will pick a different picture book retailing of the birth of Christ or some aspect of it and read it together. I have already started picking books I plan to use. There are so many to pick from it is more than easy to find enough and to find the kind that suite your preferences. Here are some of the books I plan to use:
1. Tiny Baby Jesus, Written by Dandi Daley Mackall, Illustraated by Julia Noonan
2. A Child is Born, Written by Margaret Wise Brown, Illustrated by Floyd Cooper
3. The Third Gift, Written by Linda Sue Park, Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline
4. The Nativity, by Julie Vivas
5. Jacob's Gift, Written by Max Lucado, Illustrated by Robert Hunt
6. Humphrey's First Christmas, by Carol Heyer
7. We Were There: A Nativity Story,Written by Eve Bunting, Illustrated by Wendell Minor
8. Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale, Written by Martin Waddell, Illustrated by Jason Cockcroft
9. Baboushka and the Three Kings, Written by Ruth Robbins, Illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov
10. A Baby Born in Bethlehem, Written by Martha Whitmore Hickman, Illustrated by Giuliano Ferri
11. Christmas in the Barn, Written by Margaret Wise Brown, Illustrated by Diane Goode
12. The Story of Christmas, By Pamela Dalton
Anyone else have any great books about the birth of Jesus they would add to this list? I am really looking forward to this new tradition.
This is a beautiful idea! Wish I'd thought of it when my kids were young. A daily focus on the birth of Christ will help implant the true meaning of the holiday. You are a smart cookie!
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