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Looking for some resources for your classroom. Then take a stroll around the Clickteaching Bookshop and find some inspirational ideas for your lessons. All books are sold in association with Amazon through a secure ordering system.
 Christmas Story Books
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The Kingfisher Book of Classic Christmas Stories
Traditional favourites, legends from around the world and modern retellings of classic Christmas stories feature in this sparkling collection. Charming stories, whether familiar or less well known, will entertain readers of all ages, and get them into a festive mood. This beautiful book has been carefully compiled to appeal to both boys and girls. It will find a place in any home. Funny and sad, magical and mysterious, these stories and their stunning illustrations capture the true spirit of Christmas.
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Jingle Bells: poems for Christmas
A wonderful anthology of gorgeous poems - both classic and brand-new for this collection - carols and hymns for Christmas. It captures all the emotion and excitement of the festive season, from anticipation to enjoyment, to the joy of the New Year.
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Christmas Around the World
A charming and informative festive title in Usborne's Young Reading series, which encourages and develops independent reading. With a luxury foiled cover and ribbon marker, this is a gift book that every young reader will treasure.
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The Nutcracker
"There were no sweets. There were no fruit chews or lollipops, no Turkish delight or cherry drops, no cough candies or chocolate fudge, no lemon sherbets or mint humbugs, no sweeties, no chocolates, nothing." For children, a Christmas without sweets is unthinkable.
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The Snowman
A little boy makes a snowman. When he looks through the window at night, the snowman has come to life. The little boy shows the snowman around the house and later they go and visit Father Christmas. When the boy wakes up in the morning, the snowman has melted.
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Letters from Father Christmas
Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien's children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful coloured drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christmas. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole.
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The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems
This is an anthology of over 120 poems - a wide-ranging collection of old and new, favourites and lesser-known ones. The poets featured include: John Betjeman, G. K. Chesterton, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Walter de la Mare, Spike Milligan, and Roger McGough. There are illustrations in colour, and black and white throughout the book, by various artists, such as Ian Beck and Charles Keeping.
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The Jolly Christmas Postman
It's Christmas Eve and the Jolly Postman is delivering greetings to various fairy-tale characters - there's a card for baby bear, a get well jigsaw for hospitalized Humpty Dumpty and four more surprise envelopes containing letters and cards.
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Father Christmas
Father Christmas awoke from his dream of summer in the sun, and there it was on the calendar, December 24th, Christmas Eve, the start of his longest night's work of the year. This book was awarded The Library Association's Kate Greenaway Medal.
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The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
A moving and memorable Christmas tale, Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. Jonathan Toomey is the best woodcarver in the valley. But he is a gruff, cold man - no one knows of his grief for the wife and child he lost years ago. Then one day in early winter, the widow McDowell comes to call. Would Mr Toomey carve a set of nativity figures for her and her son Thomas in time for Christmas? When, reluctantly, he agrees, Jonathan Toomey's Christmas miracle begins...First published in 1995, this beautifully illustrated, award-winning story has become an established seasonal favourite with children and adults around the world.
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Another Night Before Christmas, Carol Ann Duffy
In 1822 Clement Moore wrote a poem about Christmas for his children. 'The Night Before Christmas' soon became a Christmas classic. Now one of Britain's best-loved poets has rewritten the poem for the twenty-first century. This new version is full of Carol Ann Duffy's characteristic wit and warmth, Illustrated by one of the most exciting Illustrators of the moment, this edition is destined to become a classic in its own right.
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Nonsense Christmas Rhymes
The latest title in this well-loved series, Nonsense Christmas Rhymes reproduces the wacky sense of humour of the other Nonsense Rhymes books. We are treated to poems about a far-from-Silent Night, geese getting fat and going to the gym, and Good King Wenceslas having an accident on his mountain bike!
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