2016 Winter Book Fair: Books For Everyone!

2016 Winter Book Fair

Books for Everyone On Your Christmas List!

We have chosen the best of the best, our personal favorites, and plenty of great reads for the list below. We hope this helps you pick books for the kids in your life who love to read–and those who don’t (yet)! All titles are linked to Redeemed Reader reviews (or will be over the coming weeks) and amazon. We have also created an Amazon store for your shopping convenience! At the bottom of the list, look for links to our previous years’ lists.

*Each book you buy through our site or our amazon store earns us a small percentage. Thank you for supporting Redeemed Reader as we try to serve you better! 

Books For When You Want to Give a Spiritual Resource

• The Garden, the Curtain, and the Cross (picture book; Redeemed Reader Review)
• The Christmas Promise (picture book)
• Miracle Man: The Story of Jesus (picture book; Redeemed Reader Review)
• The Radical Book for Kids (middle grades; Redeemed Reader Review)
• The Book of God (middle grades; Redeemed Reader Review)
• Visual Theology (teen/adult)
• Church History Resources
• Children’s and Teen Bible Reviews

Books For Families Who Love the Classics

• Finding Winnie (Winnie-the-Pooh related; picture book; Redeemed Reader Review)
• Kitty in Boots (Beatrix Potter related; picture book)
• Calico the Wonder Horse: Christmas Gift Edition (re-issue of a Virginia Lee Burton picture book)
• Will’s Words (Shakespeare related; picture book but middle grades friendly; Redeemed Reader Review)
• Some Writer! (E. B. White related; middle grades biography; Redeemed Reader Review)
• A Christmas Carol (we recommend the version linked here for its beautiful format and illustrations!)
• Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure (middle grades; Redeemed Reader Review)

Books That Make Great Read Alouds

• When the World is Ready for Bed (board book)
• One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree (picture book)
• The Pigeon Needs a Bath (picture book)
• Circus Mirandus (middle grades fantasy; Redeemed Reader Review)
• Sweet Home Alaska (middle grades historical fiction; Redeemed Reader Review)
• Ember Falls (middle grades fantasy; Redeemed Reader Review)
  • See also: The Green Ember (RR Review) and The Black Star of Kingston
• The Voyage to Magical North (middle grades fantasy; Redeemed Reader Review)

Books for Kids Who Love to Read

• The Complicated Case (chapter book; Redeemed Reader Review)
• When the Sea Turned to Silver (middle grades fantasy; Redeemed Reader Review)
• The Thief (upper middle grades/teen fantasy)
• I Don’t Know How the Story Ends (upper middle grades/teen historical fiction; Redeemed Reader Review)
• The Secret Keepers (middle grades/teen adventure/fantasy)
• The Goblin’s Puzzle (middle grades; Redeemed Reader Review)
• The Passion of Dolssa (teen historical fiction; Redeemed Reader Review)

Books for Kids Who Don’t Love to Read (yet!)

These titles also make great choices for kids who already love to read, but they all have extra features (illustrations, more fact than story, funny, etc.) that help add appeal for reluctant readers.

• Spot the Cat (picture book; Redeemed Reader Review)
• Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions (picture book)
• Guinness World Records: Fun With Food (easy reader)
• Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth and Hilo: Saving the Whole Wide World (easy reader/graphic novel; Redeemed Reader Review)
• Medieval Lego (middle grades/all ages)
• Ghost (upper middle grades/teen; Redeemed Reader Review)

Books for Nonfiction Junkies

For those kids who love a good story–if it’s true–or just want the facts. We have a  number of nonfiction titles sprinkled in amongst the other sections, too, so be sure to check those out!

• Ada’s Violin (picture book; a music story)
• The Plot to Kill Hitler (middle grades and up; biography; Redeemed Reader Review)
• The Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill (middle grades and up; biography; Redeemed Reader Review)
• Grover Cleveland, Again! (upper elementary/middle grades; brief bios; Redeemed Reader Review)
• City Atlas (geography and maps! Redeemed Reader Review)
• The Revolutionary War (upper elementary; history; Redeemed Reader Review)
• The Way Things Work Now (upper elementary and up; facts and applied science; Redeemed Reader Review)
• The 101 Coolest Simple Science Experiments (elementary and up; Redeemed Reader Review)

Previous Winter Book Fair/Christmas Gift Lists

• Charlotte Mason’s Christmas List: 5 Living Books (2012)
• Nostalgic Christmas Picture Books (2013)
• Winter Book Fair: Gifts to Support Redeemed Reader (2013)
• Winter Book Fair (2014)

Which of these look like great picks for the children in your life? The Redeemed Reader staff is putting our money where our mouth is and buying several of these same titles for our own children (and nieces and nephews)! We’d love to hear if a certain book becomes someone’s favorite gift this year–let us know in the comments!