KS2 Christmas Reading Advent Calendar

Help Wanted

Timothy Tocher

Santa needs new reindeer.
The first bunch has grown old.
Dasher has arthritis;
Comet hates the cold.
Prancer's sick of staring
at Dancer's ...

Published in Barrington Stoke’s ‘super-readable’ and dyslexia-friendly style, this is a short chapter book that readers will find easy ...

A Boy Called Christmas tells the story of Nikolas, whose father is a woodcutter who has disappeared on a dangerous ...

The Twelve Days of Christmas

Anon.

On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.

On ...

Don't Forget The Reindeer - By unknown

Hang up the stockings.

Decorate the tree.

Presents placed perfectly.

What a sight to see!

Milk and cookies ...

A Visit from St. Nicholas

Clement Clarke Moore

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro’ the house,

Not a creature was stirring, ...

Dearest little Mia,
This Christmas, instead of a Christmas card – you’ll have plenty of those – and instead of a ...

Five Little Reindeer

Author Unknown

Five little reindeer playing in the snow
The first one said, “Can you see my nose glow?”
The second one ...

little tree

e.e  cummings

little tree 

little silent Christmas tree 

you are so little 

you are more like a flower 

who found you in the green ...

When George stumbles across Marley's Curiosity Shop, he finds a mysterious and magical snow globe.

George and his Scrooge of a ...

Christmas

By M.E. Miro

Christmas is more than a day in December
It’s all of those things that we love to remember
Its carolers ...

Christmas is full of shiny things,
That sparkle, gleam and glow,
These holiday pleasures dazzle us,
And yet deep-down we know…

That Christmas has ...

Recommendation:

For children who love to laugh (and who doesn't?), Santa Gets ...

Talking Turkeys

Benjamin Zephaniah

Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas
Cos’ turkeys just wanna hav fun
Turkeys are cool, turkeys are wicked
An every ...

The Little Christmas Carollers

By L.A. Franc

We are a band of carollers,
We march through frost and snow,
But care not for the ...

When Santa Claus Comes

A good time is coming, I wish it were here,
The very best time in the whole of ...

Recommendation:

A great book full of festive jokes for children to share with each other, with friends and classmates or with ...

Snow by Walter de la Mare:

As the day draws to a close, a family prepares for Christmas - decorating the ...

Snowball

By Shel Silverstein

I made myself a snowball,
As perfect as could be,
I thought I’d keep it as a pet,
And let it ...

Clarice looks forward to noise and family at the festive end of the year, but this year she remembers the ...