Little Owl and the Star Board Book
Author/Illustrator: Mary Murphy
Imprint: Walker Books
ISBN: 9781406301861
Format: Board book
Australian RRP: $14.95
A nativity story for the very young child. Little Owl follows the Star, as do three men on camels and shepherds with their sheep. They soon find themselves part of the happiest scene on Earth.
Happy Christmas, Maisy
Lucy Cousins
ISBN:978-1406331042
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Walker Books, October 2011
RRP: A$19.95
Join Maisy in celebrating the festive season, with this new edition of the bestselling novelty book. From wrapping presents and making the cake to putting up the shiny decorations and hanging up her stocking, Maisy’s preparations are bursting with excitement and colour and fun. Full of flaps to lift, tabs to pull and lots of sparkly surprises, this is the perfect mini stocking-filler for Maisy fans everywhere.
Suitable for ages 1+
Christmas Time
Author: Alison Jay
Publisher: Hardie Grant Egmont Books, November 2010
ISBN: 9781921759130
Format: Board book
RRP: $14.95
Each page features a different Christmas object, which is named to encourage vocabulary building, and each illustration is full of Alison Jay’s trademark visual jokes and hidden links. In addition, a magical adventure unfolds wordlessly through the illustrations: two wakeful children creep downstairs on Christmas Eve, meet Father Christmas and are taken on an amazing adventure to his home in the North Pole and back again.
Suitable for ages 2+
Merry Christmas Little One
Sandra Magsamen
ISBN:978-0316070034
Format: Board book
Publisher: LB Kids (Hachette Books), November 2010
RRP: A$16.99
Publisher’s description: Celebrate Christmas with a joyful new lift-the-flap board book – includes padded cloth Christmas tree on cover!, heartfelt rhymes and engaging illustrations.
Suitable for ages 1+
Tickly Christmas Wibbly Pig
Mick Inkpen
ISBN:978-0340997536
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hodder Childrens Books (Hachette Books), October 2010
RRP: A$16.99
Publisher’s Description: Big Aunt Larlie is coming to stay and she’s brought her knitting needles and lots of balls of wool. She has already given Wibbly a scarf and some gloves and now Wibbly is worried that there is another tickly Christmas present on the way… A perfect tale of a small child’s anticipation of Christmas.
Suitable for ages 2+
An Aussie Day Before Christmas Board Book
Author/Illustrator: Kilmeny Niland
Publisher : SCHOLASTIC AUSTRALIA, October 2010
ISBN: 978-1741695090
Format: Board Books
RRP: $9.99
In this fun and colourful book children discover how Santa would prepare for Christmas Eve if he lived in Australia. He wears shorts and a singlet; eats a breakkie of snags, toast and honey; and he piles his sacks full of pressies into his old ute that is pulled by ‘roos. The fun-to-read-aloud rhyming verse has been especially adapted for younger readers.
Suitable for ages 2+ (★★★)
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The Australian Twelve Days of Christmas
Author/Illustrator: Heath McKenzie
Publisher: Black Dog Books (Walker Books)
ISBN: 9781742031118
Format: Board Book
RRP: $12.99
The Australian Twelve Days of Christmas
This is a funny Australian rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas. All starts off quite romantic with a kookaburra up a gum tree, but with penguins licking ice-creams, flies hanging around mince pies and emus playing football it all becomes a bit of a ruckus. This will be a hit with kids that like a bit of silliness.
Suitable for ages 1+ (★★★★)
Whose… Present?
Publisher: Ladybird, 27 September 2010
ISBN: 9781409306566
Format: Board Book
RRP: $12.95
Publisher’s Description: Read the rhyming text with your child and talk about what clues you can see in the pictures, and what you think the present is each time. Then lift the flaps to reveal just who the present belongs to!
Spot’s First Christmas
Author/Illustrator: Eric Hill
Publisher: Warne
ISBN: 9780723264132
Format: Board Book
RRP: $12.95
Lift the flaps and join Spot as he finds out about presents, Christmas trees and all the excitement.
Dear Santa
Rod Campbell
ISBN:978-0230739413
Format: Board book
Publisher: MacMillan Children’s Books, October 2009
RRP: $A12.99
If you love Dear Zoo, you’re bound to love Dear Santa. Santa responds to a letter by sending a string of gifts. Children need to lift the flaps to find out what presents Santa is sending until they find one which is just right.
Suitable for ages 1+ (★★★★★)
Grug and His First Christmas
Ted Prior
ISBN:978-0731814305
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia, November 2009
Grug is getting ready for Christmas. Join him in his adventures.
Suitable for ages 0+
Room for a Little One
Martin Waddell
ISBN:978-1408300732
Format: Board book
Publisher: Orchard (Hachette Books), October 2008
RRP: A$12.99
This is a classic and beautiful retelling of the Nativity story for young children in which an ox kindly welcomes animals, Joseph and Mary into his stable. The animals are there to welcome baby Jesus into the world later that night.
Suitable for ages 2+ (★★★★★)
Maisy’s Christmas Day
Lucy Cousins
ISBN:978-1406313628
Format: Board book
Publisher: Walker Books, September 2008
RRP: $11.95
Publisher’s Description: Hurray! It’s Christmas Day and Maisy is celebrating with all her friends. After some exciting present-opening, they sing a Christmas carol to Maisy’s new guitar and then sit down to a delicious feast.
Suitable for ages 0+
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