Favourite Christmas Books
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Jamie Oliver’s Christmas Cookbook
I’ve kind of fell out of love with Jamie Oliver but I’m still in love with his Christmas book and all the traditional British Christmas food à la Jamie.
This book is absolutely hilarious and I only read it with Christmas and it makes me laugh out loud each year. It’s a funny twist on the twelve days of Christmas told as daily thank-you letters from one increasingly bemused young lady to her unseen admirer. Accompanied with illustrations by Quentin Blake. This is a stocking filler hit!
“Jeanette Winterson brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny and bold Christmas stories, linked by personal memories and twelve delicious recipes for the Twelve Days of Christmas. From jovial spirits to a donkey with a golden nose, a haunted house to a SnowMama, Winterson’s innovative stories encompass the childlike and spooky wonder of Christmas. Enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic courtesy of one of our most fearless and accomplished writers.” I couldn’t have wrote it better.
This is such a darling book and will be enjoyed by Tolkien fans. The book contains Christmas letters Tolkien wrote to his Children and include illustrations. I can only imagine if I had children of my own that I would exactly do this.
Including stories from Laurie Lee, Truman Capote, Kenneth Graham, John Cheever, Sue Towsend, Nancy Mitford, Dylan Thomas, Charles Dickens, John Julius Norwich, P.G. Wodehouse and Stella Gibbons, among many others. A must have for Christmas story lovers.
If you love William Morris you will love this books. It’s simply all the twelve days of Christmas like in the song but illustrated with patterns by William Morris.
The Peanuts Guide to Christmas
All Peanuts and Christmas lovers will love this book. Also a super stocking filler.
A Christmas classic that you need to have in your bookcase. A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, The Cricket on the Hearth and The Haunted Man but also stories that Dickens wrote for the special seasonal editions of his periodicals All the Year Round and Household Words, and a festive tale from The Pickwick Papers.
I have misplaced this awfully cute little book illustrated by Elsa Beskow so I replaced it for the photo with a card that’s in the book. While you’re at it you might also want to purchase Peter and Lotta's Christmas.
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Love, Yvonne xxx
Love taking out all the Christmas books. I am taking out my fave magazines as well as I have them sorted by seasons. It feels like reading them anew each year. Elsa Beskow‘s books have been a staple at our house through our children‘s childhood. The illustrations are so beautiful.
The Tolkien Book was a gift to myself when I was a high schooler and it is such a work of art with the illustrations and an insight into some not so fortunate times when Santa could not bring presents.
I will cuddle up on the sofa now and read some of these precious books.