I Love Christmas by Anna Walker
I Love Christmas by Anna Walker is an adorable picture book for the younger crowd with simple text and the most wonderful illustrations. Ollie, our cute little main character loves Christmas and everything about it. The crinkly paper, tinsel, string, baking cakes with his Nanna, stars in the sky, Santa, and sitting in bed on Christmas Eve listening for Santa’s sleigh bells with his dog Fred.
A really nice touch that I really appreciated, was the spread with Ollie playing with a nativity with the line, “I love the cow and happy sheep, the star, the donkey, and the baby asleep.” For my family, who celebrates Christmas as the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ, it was nice to see a picture book that combined both Santa and the birth of Christ as reasons to love Christmas.
Also, loved how the cardstock in this picture book was a bit sturdier. My boys are inbetween stages with board books and picture books and easily tear pages from books. This one just might hold up for us.
I’m thrilled to add this Christmas book to my collection. I love great Christmas books and this one fits the bill.
Links of interest: Anna Walker website. I Love Christmas by Anna Walker is a fiction picture book Cybil’s nominee for which I’m a panelist.
Genre: Fiction Picture Book, approx age 4-8.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. October 6, 2009
Hardcover/Paperback # of pages. ISBN 1416983171
I Love Christmas by Anna Walker is available from your favorite independent bookstore, Powell’s, and Amazon.
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Tags: Christmas, Cybils 2009 picture book nomination, female author, Fiction, holidays, I-L Title, published 2009, review copy, U-Z Author
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