Read Aloud Revival celebrates Christmas by offering Christmas School! This year they have engaging activities to support the reading of the following books:
1. The Cat on the Dovrefell (my suggestion: pair with Jan Brett's Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve?-a retelling of the same Norwegian tale. The author's two writing and illustrations differ greatly and provide the opportunity for a good discussion on their differences. The main story,however, is surprisingly the same!) *Highly recommend both books.
2. Christmas Tree Book *highly recommend.
My son and I learned so many interesting facts about the tradition of Christmas trees. Especially appealing to me were the German tradition explanations.
3. Christina's Carol -Tomie was in the middle of illustrating this picture book when he passed away. His publisher used various illustrations from his previous books to complete this book. RAR suggested identifying the books from where they pulled the illustrations. I plan to discuss the art term "medium" with my son when we read this book together. *Highly recommend because of the variety of art displayed (and I love the poem/carol!).
4. Jingle The Christmas Clown-Jingle the little clown stays behind in a tiny Italian village that cannot pay the traveling circus for their annual Christmas show. Jingle remains behind so the little animals can rest. He brings much joy to the destitute villagers that Christmas Eve.
I own all of the books mentioned except for Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve?
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