Title One Newsletter
Summer Shade Elementary Volume 9 Issue 3
Top 10 Holiday Books for Kids 2012
"A book is a gift that you can open again and again." One of the more precious traditions over the Holiday season is reading holiday stories -- the top 10 Christmas books for kids 2012 are the ones that parents are choosing over the rest for their children.
1. Pete the Cat Saves Christmas - by James Dean and Eric Litwin
2. The Polar Express - by Chris Van Allsburg
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! - by Dr. Seuss
4. Llama Llama Holiday Drama - by Anna Dewdney
5. Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King - by Laura Geringer and William Joyce
6. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - by Barbara Robinson
7. A Bad Kitty Christmas - by Nick Bruel
8. Junie B., First Grader: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May) - by Barbara Park
9. Charlie and the Christmas Kitty - by Ree Drummond and Diane deGroat
10. A Christmas Carol (Little Master Dickens) - by Jennifer Adams and Alison Oliver
Additional Holiday Books Including Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and The Three Kings Day
1. The Trees of the Dancing Goats by Patricia Polacco
2. The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes by Linda Glaser
3. My First Kwanzaa by Karen Katz
4. K is For Kwanzaa by Juwanda Ford
5. We Three Kings by Gennady Spirin
6. The Mitten by Jan Brett
7. Dream Snow by Eric Carle
8. Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman
9. Christmas Remembered by Tomie dePaola
10. The Christmas Miracle by Jonathan Toomey
Don't forget to download your favorites to your Kindle.
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
For such a recently published children's book, this one is already a holiday classic.
A Bad Kitty Christmas by Nick Bruel
If you've enjoyed any of the Bad Kitty books, you'll love this one. "Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the city, not a creature was stirring...Except for BAD KITTY."
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
A favorite Seuss story for the holidays for age six and up. The Grinch hates Christmas and will do anything to stop it from coming.
Book Fair, December 5-17, 2012, 8:00-3:00 with a special shopping night after the Christmas Program, December 13
School News
Christmas Program, December 13, 6:00 pm
Christmas Parties, December 19, 1:45 pm
Christmas Break, December 20-January 2
Students Return, January 3
Email: dorothy.mccubbin@metcalfe.kyschools.us
Website: http://www.metcalfe.kyschools.us/sse/
Location: 235 Nobob Summer Shade Road, Summer Shade, KY
Phone: 270-428-3962
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Summer-Shade-Elementary/243382559034513