The Night Before Christmas

If you are in the market for a Christmas book this season, you will not be disappointed. The offerings are varied and rich the tough part will be deciding which ones to buy! Grandfather's Christmas Tree (ages 4-8) has everything a good holiday book should have: gorgeous illustrations (by Thomas Locker, one of my favorite…

Twas the season of giving
And all through the stores,
Await bright racks and shelves,
Filled with holiday books galore!

Indeed, this year's crop seems especially good, starting with Bonny Becker's hilarious The Christmas Crocodile (4-8). In an old Victorian home to a young girl named Alice Jayne and her eccentric relatives…