Name: Spreading the Feast Gathering
Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
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November 2, 2011 at 2:29 pm
ebcsmom
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I am wanting to start a new tradition in our home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I am wanting to buy each of my children a book for each holiday, or maybe even just Christmas. I have a 9 year old daughter, a 7 year old son, and a 4 year old daughter. What books do you have that are a “MUST” for your family library? I am wanting to give them a book each and one they can enjoy now, and be able to take with them we they have their own homes.(I don’ even want to think about those days ) I am wanting to build of of them a personal library.
What books have you gifted your children that have really impacted your childrens and your lives? I will say that my oldest two love to read, and to be read too. I am just needing ideas for that “special” book for them!

November 2, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Sue
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Here are two links from earlier threads that recommend Christmas books:
http://simplycharlottemason.com/scmforum/topic/good-christmas-books#post-26782
http://simplycharlottemason.com/scmforum/topic/favorite-christmas-picture-books#post-14080

HTH,
Sue
November 2, 2011 at 2:48 pm
ebcsmom
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Sue,
Thanks so much!! I will check those links out. THANK YOU!!!
However I think I made my post VERY confusing! LOL I was meaning to say I want to get them each a new book as a present for Christmas, and not “Christmas” books. I am needing ideas for “GREAT” books in general that you dont’ want your child to miss out on reading. Those books that have touched your child maybe at a certain age that your child loves and likes rereading from time to time. Those books that they say is their “favorite” book. I am sorry for being so confusing!

November 2, 2011 at 3:11 pm
ibkim2
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We LOVE the Tales of Beatrix Potter. Also any of the McCloskey books for the younger child (like Blueberries for Sal or Make Way for Ducklings). The Tales of Winnie the Pooh is great. For the older dc, if you don’t have these series they would be wonderful enrichment…..the Chronicles of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables Books, Little Women/Little Men, The Little House on the Prairie series. Many of those may be lit choices in your curriculum though, but I don’t want to miss them in my dc’s readings when they get older.

November 2, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Janell
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We love Lamplighter books (Christian literature from mostly the 19th century in beauiful hardback). We started collecting them using their four book per month book club…but will be purchasing the remainder of the books that we need to finish our collection for Christmas this year. These are pricey but definitely the books we want to have for several generations. Collecting them gradually has made them even more special…with the children eagerly anticipating each month their new set of Lamplighters. We also love their audio dramas too.
http://www.lamplighterpublishing.com/
November 2, 2011 at 5:48 pm
pangit
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We love Sam Campbell books. They are all about some experience he has had with animals.
November 2, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Sue
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Oh….I probably skimmed through your post and it was my misunderstanding. I will say we love the Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner, and would be suitable for your 9yo, your 7yo (if he’s reading at “grade level”) and could be a read aloud for the 4yo. However, she only wrote the first 19 in the series. There are tons more, written by other authors under her pen name so as to continue the series, but they are a bit different. Some say they are not as good as the first 19 books. We have read some of the later books…..some were a hit and a few were a bit boring.
Sue
November 3, 2011 at 1:27 am
Treasure House
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They’re not great literature, but we love Jan Brett’s picture books with all the winter scenes.
Janell: do you buy duplicate Lamplighter books for each of your children? We’ve been collecting them for awhile, but haven’t been buying multiple copies until maybe this Christmas.
I’ve been thinking lately, if a book is good enough to purchase shouldn’t we be buying a copy for each child? I’m trying to be wise with our purchases and am looking for other opinions. Thoughts anyone?
November 3, 2011 at 2:04 am
missceegee
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We use the Lamplighter Book club too. Love them!
@Treasurehouse – Long ago, I began buying faves for each of our kids, but as our home library has grown, it’s become unrealistic. I figure with a library our size (4000-5000 volumes and counting), they’ll have to divvy them up.

November 3, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Janell
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Treasure House, I buy books for our family library because we have seven children. I have bought Bibles and devotional style books for each child. My favorite is the Daily Light (Anne Graham Lotz bonded leather edition). Each older chld also has a kindle because they read a lot of classics and also from our Yesterday Classics ebook collection. I suspect I will be buying duplicate books and, as Missceegee said, divvying up our family library eventually for my future adult children and future grandchildren. Until then…they are all mine…my own…my Precious…
Happy book collecting.
Janell
November 3, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Jenni
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My 7yo dd has just declared her “favorite books of all time” to be “anything about Betsy-Tacy and Tib.” We still find a lot of these at thrift stores for cheap, but I can’t keep her in books right now.
My 4yo dd is in love with Mr Seahorse by Eric Carle. It was a gift from her uncle and we have read it approximately 84 gazillion times in two years.
Neat idea… I think I may borrow it. We’re all voracious readers, except dh, so we are already overrun with books.
Oh well!
November 3, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Misty
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We do this for Christmas. We buy a good that is either a good literature or a specific interest. So here are my Christmas books bought for this year:
13yr hunting for trophey whitetail deer book, 12yr puzzle hunt book, 10yr Big Book of boy stuff, 7.5yr Book of world records, 5yr a leap-book (the ones that talk to you, we already have the system for this and the little ones) so the 2.5yr girl got pooh for the little set, and my 1yr old got You are my I love you!
Some years it’s interests like this year. Last year they got ones like Robin Hood, Treasure Island, etc. We try to keep it interesting and like this years will not be a one read and that’s it. It will be something they pick up often and can even share almost in all age levels.
Good luck. Just how we do it. Misty
November 3, 2011 at 7:40 pm
ebcsmom
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Thank you all so much for your ideas! I am loving all these and have wrote them all down! I want to build a library for our home and you all help so much!