Jan's Christmas picture book favourites.

Christmas is just around the corner! Jan’s Christmas picture book favourites list may be just what you are looking for.

Great Britain:
1. The first Christmas
King James version, illustrated by Jan Pienkowski (Puffin 2006)
2. This is the star
Joyce Dunbar and Gary Blythe (Picture Corgi 1998)
3. One little angel
Ruth Brown (Red Fox 2000)
4. Jesus’ Christmas party
Nicholas Allan (Red Fox 1996)
5. The story of Christmas
Jane Ray (Orchard 1994)
6. Cat in the manger
Michael Foreman (Red Fox 2001)


U.S.A:
1. The night before Christmas
Clement C.Moore, illustrated Christian Birmingham (Collins 2000)

New Zealand:
1. Mrs Wishy-Washy’s Christmas
Joy Cowley (Puffin 2005)
2. A pukeko in a punga tree
Adapted by Kingi Ihaka (Reed 2001)
3. A kiwi night before Christmas
Yvonne Morrison and Deborah Hinde (Scholastic 2003)
4. A kiwi jingle bells
Yvonne Morrison and Deborah Hinde (Scholastic 2006 – includes music CD))

And for a more sophisticated reader:

The twelve days of Christmas (correspondence)
John Julius Norwich, illustrated by Quenton Blake (Doubleday 1998)

This is very, very funny........

Jan