December is the easiest month of the year to get kids reading: the stories practically sell themselves. Here are the free Christmas books we'd pick first, sorted by age. Find them all, plus Christmas audiobooks, on the Pagine Christmas collection.
Christmas picture books for ages 2–5
- ’Twas the Night Before Christmas: the classic poem, perfect for Christmas Eve.
- Christmas Roses and Christmas in PNG
- A Defective Santa Claus: a funny rhyming poem.
- Pagine Originals Ten Little Snowflakes and The Littlest Reindeer
Christmas stories for K–2 (ages 5–8)
- The Little Gingerbread Man
- The Story of Santa Klaus and Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle, or St. Nicholas
- The Christmas Star, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
- The Fairies and the Christmas Child
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Christmas around the world (ages 6–11)
- ’Round the Yule-Log: Christmas in Norway
- Arne and the Christmas Star
- Little Paulina: Christmas in Russia
- Christmas Tales of Flanders
- Christmas Stories and Legends
Christmas classics for confident readers (ages 9+)
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: read a stave a night through December (there's a free audiobook too).
- The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
- The Birds’ Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Little Women, which famously opens at Christmas
Christmas poems, plays and printables
Putting on a school show? Try Fifty Christmas Poems for Children or Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls. For the classroom there are Christmas word searches, maths word problems, a design-a-card sheet, an Advent reading tracker and printable carols.
Wrap 24 books (library books count!) and open one each day of Advent. It turns December into a reading countdown.
Read every Christmas book on this list free in Pagine.