Multi-Cultural Holiday Book List for Kids

The holiday season is a festive time of year for many people across the country and around the world. Different cultures celebrate in different ways. Here’s a great reading list to introduce your little reader to all kinds of cultural traditions, beyond what you celebrate in your home.

Christmas

• How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas? by Jane Yolen
• Construction Site on Christmas Night by Sherri Duskey Rinker
• The Not Very Merry Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen
• ‘Twas Nochebuena by Roseanne Greenfield Thong

Hanukkah

• I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Dreidel by Caryn Yacowitz
• How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah? by Jane Yolen
• Latke, the Lucky Dog by Ellen Fischer
• Oskar and the Eight Blessings by Richard Simon and Tanya Simon
• Light the Lights by Margaret Moorman

Kwanzaa

• My First Kwanzaa by Karen Katz
• The Sound of Kwanzaa by Dimitrea Tokunbo

Holiday

• The Gingerbread Man by Karen Schmidt
• Let’s Celebrate by Kate DePalma