Bestselling Holidays & Celebrations Books for 1 Year Olds

Here are the top 30 bestselling holidays & celebrations books for 1 year olds. Please click Read Review to read book reviews on Amazon. You can also click Find in Library to check book availability at your local library. If the default library is not correct, please follow Change Library to reset it.

1. Christmas in the Manger

by: Nola BuckFelicia Bond
Release date: Oct 03, 1998
Number of Pages: 16
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The gentle beauty of the story of the first Christmas is now available as a board book. With a simple, lyrical text and radiant artwork, this book is perfect for the youngest child to be a part of the wonder of the Nativity.

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Children’s Books > Animals > Farm Animals

2. Little Blue Truck’s Halloween

by: Alice SchertleJill McElmurry
Release date: Jul 05, 2016
Number of Pages: 16
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Beep! Beep! It’s Halloween! Little Blue Truck is picking up his animal friends for a costume party. Lift the flaps in this large, sturdy board book to find out who’s dressed up in each costume! Will Blue wear a costume too? 
     With the delightful rhymes and signature illustration style that made Little Blue Truck a household name, Blue’s new adventure is full of festive costumes, fall colors, and plenty of Halloween fun! 
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Children’s Books > Animals > Farm Animals

3. Merry Christmas, Mouse! (If You Give…)

by: Laura NumeroffFelicia Bond
Release date: Sep 25, 2007
Number of Pages: 24
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Join Mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as he decorates his Christmas tree in a holiday counting adventure.

This board book with sturdy pages is perfect for toddlers, who will enjoy this simple introduction to numbers.

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Children’s Books > Animals > Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs & Squirrels

4. Who is Coming to Our House?

by: Joseph SlateAshley Wolff
Release date: Sep 24, 2001
Number of Pages: 24
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A modern Christmas classic about how the animals prepare a cozy welcome for the baby Jesus.

“Who is coming to our house?

Someone, someone,” says Mouse.

As Pig makes room, Lamb cleans up, Goose stacks the hay, and Duck lines the crib with eiderdown, Mary and Joseph are on their way by donkey. All the animals are eager to welcome the baby Jesus to their home.

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Children’s Books > Animals > Farm Animals

5. Happy Hanukkah, Curious George tabbed board book

by: H. A. ReyMargret Rey
Release date: Sep 18, 2012
Number of Pages: 14
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It is the eighth night of Hanukkah, and George and his friends have gathered for a celebration. They light the menorah, spin the dreidel, make latkes, and learn the importance of mitzvah! In this tabbed board book, youngsters will even find a tasty latke recipe and instructions for constructing a dreidel, with rules for play. A festive foil-stamped cover makes this a fine holiday gift for fans of Curious George. For more monkey fun, investigate www.curiousgeorge.com.

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Children’s Books > Animals > Apes & Monkeys

6. Spot’s Christmas

by: Eric HillEric Hill
Release date: Sep 16, 2004
Number of Pages: 12
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The Christmas season is a very busy time, and Spot knows that as well as anyone else. Everyone in Spot’s house has something to do: there’s the tree to put up and decorate, presents to make and wrap, and Mom needs Spot’s help in the kitchen. Spot is so excited, keeping a sharp eye out for any flying reindeer, he almost forgets to leave milk and cookies for Santa!
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Children’s Books > Animals > Dogs

7. Biscuit Is Thankful

by: Alyssa Satin CapucilliPat Schories
Release date: Sep 02, 2003
Number of Pages: 16
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Biscuit is thankful for his bone, his biscuits, and lots more, too. Sweet puppy! Woof!

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Children’s Books > Animals > Dogs

8. The Hat

by: Jan Brett
Release date: Oct 04, 1999
Number of Pages: 34
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Publishers Weekly #1 bestseller, Jan Brett’s heartwarming story of Hedgie the hedgehog’s misadventures in the snow has become a family favorite.

When Lisa’s woolen stocking flies off the closeline, Hedgie can’t resist poking his nose in. He tries to pull it out, but the stocking is stuck on his prickles. At first the other animals laugh at the sight of him, but when they realize they might like something to keep their heads dry and ears warm, too, even more silliness ensues.

Like its companion The Mitten, The Hat is now available as a wonderful board book to share with young children.

“Brett’s signature art introduces animal characters as endearing and expressive as those who congregated in her earlier book’s expandable white mitten.” —Publishers Weekly

“A clever and appealing picture book. . . . The pictures, story, and subject matter make this a natural for sharing aloud.” —School Library Journal

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Children’s Books > Animals

9. Gingerbread Baby

by: Jan BrettJan Brett
Release date: Sep 22, 2003
Number of Pages: 32
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Jan Brett’s highly original version of the Gingerbread Boy story has quickly become a family classic. Now, the charming tale of Matti’s clever trap for the runaway Gingerbread Baby is available as a beautiful board book for younger readers. And it still features a surprise lift-the-flap gingerbread house at the end!
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Children’s Books > Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

10. Merry Christmas, Ollie board book (Gossie & Friends)

by: Olivier Dunrea
Release date: Sep 27, 2011
Number of Pages: 30
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The special Gossie & Friends Christmas story, now available in a board book edition.
It’s Christmas Eve. Gossie and Gertie hang their brightly colored boots in the barn.Peedie and BooBoo hang their striped stockings in the barn. Ollie stomps through the snow. They are all waiting . . . but it’s not easy to wait for Father Christmas Goose!
This beautiful board book features sparkly red foil on the cover—a real Christmas
treat!
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Children’s Books > Animals > Ducks & Other Waterfowl

11. Biscuit Gives a Gift

by: Alyssa Satin CapucilliPat Schories
Release date: Sep 21, 2004
Number of Pages: 16
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Christmas is a wonderful time for sharing. Biscuit finds the perfect gifts foreveryone he loves.

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Children’s Books > Animals > Dogs

12. It’s Ramadan, Curious George

by: H. A. ReyHena Khan
Release date: May 03, 2016
Number of Pages: 14
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It’s the first day of Ramadan, and George is celebrating with his friend Kareem and his family. George helps Kareem with his first fast and joins in the evening celebration of tasting treats and enjoying a special meal. Then, George helps make gift baskets to donate to the needy, and watches for the crescent moon with the man in the yellow hat. Finally George joins in the Eid festivities to mark the end of his very first Ramadan. 
     This playful tabbed board book, with a foil-stamped cover, makes a great holiday gift for all fans of Curious George—those who celebrate Ramadan, and those who are learning about it for the first time!
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Children’s Books > Animals > Apes & Monkeys

13. The Night Before Christmas

by: Clement C. MooreDana Regan
Release date: Oct 30, 1992
Number of Pages: 26
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The classic Christmas poem-now available in a board book edition for the youngest child.

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Christian Books & Bibles > Christian Living > Holidays > Christmas

14. Good Night Christmas

by: Adam GambleMark JasperCooper Kelly
Release date: Aug 11, 2015
Number of Pages: 20
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Savor the magic of the season with this celebration of a traditional family Christmas. Children of all ages will enjoy tree trimming, caroling, baking Christmas cookies, decorating the house, making snow angels, reading Christmas stories, leaving milk and cookies for Santa, hanging stockings, opening presents on Christmas morning, and more.
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Children’s Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Family Life > Sleep

15. Spot’s Birthday Party

by: Eric HillEric Hill
Release date: Jun 21, 2007
Number of Pages: 24
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In Spot?s Birthday Party, Spot and his friends celebrate by playing a game of hide-and-seek, with a little help from the lift-the-flaps for which Spot books have become famous. Once everyone has been found, it?s time for a party with lots of presents!
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Children’s Books > Animals > Dogs

16. Five Little Monkeys Bake a Birthday Cake (A Five Little Monkeys Story)

by: Eileen Christelow
Release date: Sep 02, 2014
Number of Pages: 28
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Five little monkeys wake up with the sun. Today is their mama’s birthday and they are going to bake a cake. They’ll have to measure the flour and mix in the right number of eggs, and get it all into the oven in time for the birthday surprise–without waking up Mama!

Eileen Christelow has created an original, high-energy romp, sure to delight any child who has tried to plan a surprise.

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Children’s Books > Animals > Apes & Monkeys

17. Trick or Treat, Pout-Pout Fish (A Pout-Pout Fish Mini Adventure)

by: Deborah DiesenDan Hanna
Release date: Aug 09, 2016
Number of Pages: 12
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A short and sweet mini-adventure especially created to introduce the youngest guppies to the popular Pout-Pout Fish.

It’s Halloween under the sea! Mr. Fish is wearing his costume, but what is he dressed as? A goblin? An astronaut in space? A pirate at the helm of the spooky submarine? Tiny tots will love swimming along with Mr. Fish as he turns little pouts into big smiles.

With just one line of text per page, this simple, twelve-page board book will send Debbie Diesen and Dan Hanna’s much loved Pout-Pout Fish flippering and swishing into the hearts and minds of very young children.

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Children’s Books > Animals > Fish

18. Ten on the Sled

by: Kim NormanLiza Woodruff
Release date: Oct 07, 2014
Number of Pages: 24
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A favorite children’s song (“Ten on the Bed”) gets a delightfully slippery, slide-y twist! In the land of the midnight sun, all the animals are having fun speeding down the hill on Caribou’s sled. But as they go faster and faster, Seal, Hare, Walrus, and the others all fall off . . . until just the caribou’s left, only and lonely. Now, a reindeer likes flying-but never alone, so . . . all the animals leap onto the sled again! This beloved story is new in board and abridged for a preschool audience, and it’s ideal for reading, counting, and singing along with, over and over.
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Children’s Books > Animals

19. Biscuit’s Pet & Play Christmas: A Touch & Feel Book

by: Alyssa Satin CapucilliPat SchoriesMary O’Keefe Young
Release date: Sep 26, 2006
Number of Pages: 12
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Warm up with a woolly sweater and cozy up to Santa’s fluffy beard as you join Biscuit in this Christmas touch-and-feel.

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Children’s Books > Animals > Dogs

20. Biscuit Visits the Pumpkin Patch

by: Alyssa Satin CapucilliPat Schories
Release date: Jul 27, 2004
Number of Pages: 16
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What will Biscuit find in the pumpkin patch?

The perfect pumpkin, and some friendly surprises!

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Children’s Books > Animals > Dogs

21. Baby’s First Christmas

by: Christina GoodingsStephen Barker
Release date: Aug 01, 2012
Number of Pages: 12
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Bring joy to baby’s first Christmas as together you share this bright and festive book
 
With one bright illustration and one or two words per page, this board book is especially for the very, very young. The colorful, blocky illustrations will help with simple picture recognition and early language awareness, and the sturdy board book format will survive all that a baby can throw at it.
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Children’s Books > Religions > Christianity

22. Santa!: A Scanimation Picture Book

by: Rufus Butler Seder
Release date: Sep 24, 2013
Number of Pages: 24
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Santa Claus is going to town! Marrying the magic of Scanimation with the universally beloved figure of Santa Claus, Santa! is a holiday book unlike any other.

It presents a Santa that readers have never seen before?acrobatic, playful, a little mischievous, filled with joyful energy. Here’s Santa hula-hooping. Santa juggling. Santa doing cartwheels and Santa on a unicycle. Children, as they did with Gallop!, will want to imitate Santa’s irresistibly happy motions. The grown-ups will be unable to stop smiling?it’s hard to imagine a cooler character than this jolly St. Nick as he runs, spins, gyrates, backflips, and blows big bubbles.

Scanimation is the technology behind the instant New York Times best-selling series that started with Gallop!, to most recently The Wizard of Oz. Author and inventor Rufus Butler Seder continues to refine the Scanimations, with ever more smooth-flowing and detailed moving images?perfectly applied, in this case, to the irresistible figure of Santa Claus.

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Children’s Books > Holidays & Celebrations > Christmas

23. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer® Little Pop-Up Songbook

by: Editors of Publications International
Release date: Aug 15, 2013
Number of Pages: 10
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Join Rudolph, Santa and all their friends in a musical Christmas celebration! 4 Pop-Ups included and 4 sing-along songs.
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Children’s Books > Activities, Crafts & Games > Activity Books

24. Five Little Pumpkins (Harper Growing Tree)

by: Dan Yaccarino
Release date: Aug 05, 2003
Number of Pages: 16
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Come roll with the pumpkins and their friends as they get into some spirited fun!

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Children’s Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Nursery Rhymes

25. Happy Thanksgiving Day! (Touch-And-Feel Book)

by: Jill Roman LordJody Wheeler
Release date: Sep 01, 2013
Number of Pages: 16
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A touch-and-feel book that celebrates Thanksgiving and encourages gratitude for blessings in a child’s life.

In this new touch-and-feel board book, textures and bright artwork bring to life the things children experience at Thanksgiving. The narrator lists things for which he or she is thankful. Tactile experiences throughout the book engage the reader and help children to connect the book to the textures in their actual surroundings. Soft, vibrant watercolor illustrations add warmth and sweetness to the book. Ages 2-5.

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Children’s Books > Holidays & Celebrations > Thanksgiving

26. Curious Baby Curious about Christmas (Curious George touch-and-feel board book) (Curious Baby Curious George)

by: H. A. Rey
Release date: Sep 27, 2011
Number of Pages: 12
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A charming touch-and-feel board book that introduces baby to all the tactile joys of Christmas.

This festive touch-and-feel board book lets little ones explore and enjoy all that the holiday has to offer through the curious eyes of everyone’s favorite little monkey. Your baby can experience Christmas with Curious George as he hangs stockings, decorates the tree, awaits a visit from Santa, and finds a surprise present on Christmas morning. With sweet illustrations, simple rhyming verse, and an array of textures—which include velvet stockings, crumbly sugar cookies, soft reindeer fur, and Santa’s fluffy white beard, among others—this holiday book is the perfect gift for those eagerly awaiting a visit from you know who!
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Children’s Books > Animals > Apes & Monkeys

27. Biscuit’s Hanukkah

by: Alyssa Satin CapucilliPat SchoriesMary O’Keefe Young
Release date: Oct 11, 2005
Number of Pages: 16
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Come along wit Biscuit as he makes a beautiful menorah to celebrate Hanukkah. It’s a great time for stories, songs, food and friends!

Ages 2 – 6

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Children’s Books > Animals > Dogs

28. The Twelve Days of Christmas in Minnesota (The Twelve Days of Christmas in America)

by: Constance Van HovenMike Wohnoutka
Release date: Oct 04, 2016
Number of Pages: 22
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Welcome to the 12 days of Christmas in Minnesota, where you’ll be greeted by some of the Gopher State’s finest, most fun features—from 5 golden hotdishes and 4 lumberjacks to 3 red stones and 2 hockey sticks.
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Children’s Books > Holidays & Celebrations > Christmas

29. Jan Brett’s Christmas Treasury

by: Jan BrettJan Brett
Release date: Sep 24, 2001
Number of Pages: 256
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This gorgeous Christmas collection combines seven of Jan Brett’s most famous, highly acclaimed, best-selling, beloved books: The Mitten, The Wild Christmas Reindeer, Trouble with Trolls, The Twelve Days of Christmas, The Hat, Christmas Trolls, and The Night Before Christmas. Jan Brett’s exquisite art is universally recognized as being among the finest in children’s books today. In this incredible volume readers can enter her world and experience the stunning natural settings and the endearing characters in her work. From the signature decorative borders, to impish trolls, to her warm and loving animals, Jan Brett draws upon the cultures of the countries in which her stories are set and brings us both original stories and classics as charming, lively, and timeless as her art.
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Children’s Books > Literature & Fiction

30. Alphaprints: Gobble Gobble

by: Roger Priddy
Release date: Oct 04, 2016
Number of Pages: 12
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Mouse is baking pecan pie, and the hedgehogs are playing in golden fall leaves as the Alphaprint animals celebrate Thanksgiving in this touch-and-feel board book. The singsong rhymes are fun to read, and all the animal characters are created using pictures of everyday things along with big, bold, embossed fingerprints. With textures for little hands to explore, this is a great book to celebrate the season and say, “Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!”
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Children’s Books > Animals > Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs & Squirrels

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