Catholic Picture Books for All Saints’ Day, Advent, and Christmas 🎄

As we approach All Saints’ Day, we added a NEW picture book from the author of The Children’s Book of Angels!

Our home is currently abuzz with discussion around All Saints’ Day and what saint everyone should dress up as! This picture book arrived at our door as the perfect addition to our conversations–my 4-year-old is obsessed!

Maggie and Max can’t wait for the All Saints’ Day party! There will be games and candles and treats…and costumes! The children just have to decide WHAT saint to dress up as–who will they choose? 

Together, the siblings ask friends and family for suggestions, discovering wonderful saints along the way!

FREE bonus right now: Each book comes with a FREE Saint sticker sheet!

Order your copy of The All Saints’ Day Party!

Following All Saints’ Day, we are preparing for Advent with 2 fantastic picture books!

Joan, Joe, Emmanuel, and Gianna are surprised when their parents suddenly begin bringing things into their home at the beginning of December. Evergreen branches, candles, and new foods keep appearing throughout the house. They are quickly told that this is part of “Advent” and that the family is preparing for the Christmas season.

Excerpts from the Scripture readings for Advent and Christmas are keyed to the main text throughout the book, helping little ones make connections between the story and what they hear at Mass throughout the Advent and beginning of the Christmas seasons. 

Join the kids as their family celebrates Advent as a time of prayerful waiting and expectation, full of fun traditions and treats! 

ORDER An Advent Hope: A Children’s Book about Family Advent Traditions

Another picture book from the author of We have a Pope! that you need for Advent:

Highlighting treasured customs from throughout Church history, All about Advent & Christmas features the stories of saints we celebrate throughout December and explains numerous other aspects of Catholic liturgy and teaching. 

Explore the rich traditions surrounding Christ’s birth as you journey through Scripture to understand the story of salvation and discover the meaning behind many of our celebrations during Advent and Christmas. With detailed illustrations to make the liturgical seasons come alive, All about Advent & Christmas will guide readers of all ages closer to the Savior whose birth we look to with joy.

ORDER All about Advent & Christmas: Sharing the Seasons of Hope & Wonder with Children

For Christmas, another NEW seasonal picture book that families need!

This stunningly illustrated book gives children an unforgettable vision of Heaven while introducing them to how each saint will assist in the celebrations!

The most beloved saints and angels make appearances in Christmas in Heaven, all doing the things they’re best known for:

• St. Honoré, patron saint of bakers, is making Jesus’ birthday cake
• St. Cecilia, patron saint of music, is leading the choir
• St. Lucy, patron saint of the blind, is lighting the Christmas tree 
• St. Gabriel is blowing his horn
• St. Nicholas is leaving presents under the tree
• St. Thérèse is giving out flowers
• St. Francis is surrounded by little animals
• St. Patrick is handing out shamrocks

The book includes a helpful two-page glossary with short descriptions of each saint depicted.

ORDER Christmas in Heaven (save for St. Nicholas’ Day!)

For another picture book centering around a family celebrating Catholic traditions (similar to An Advent Hope):

The Light of Christmas Morning shares a heartwarming family tradition that honors the divine gift of the Savior — before the other gifts around the Christmas tree are opened. Filled with beautiful original artwork, this book celebrates family faith and holiday traditions while always keeping Christ Jesus at the center and capturing the tenderness and warmth of the home we long for at Christmas.

Paired with An Advent Hope, these two picture books are the perfect way to prepare for Christmas Day!

ORDER The Light of Christmas Morning

Advent and Christmas are holy seasons everywhere, but the Catholic children of Austria have an especially rich set of traditions to draw on. 

Very Young Catholics in Austria begins in Advent and follows a young family through Christmas and Epiphany. We see the children creating tiny cookie houses, attending the traditional Advent Mass at dawn, enjoying news from friends in the snow-covered Alps, and reading the Christmas story from St. Luke’s Gospel.

BONUS materials include information about:

• the Rorate Mass,
• Advent Markets,
• what a Christkind is, 
• and how the date of Christmas was selected!

Other adventures include a visit to the traditional Christmas market in their small town, and a spin on the ice-skating rink at the Vienna City Hall. Throughout all of their adventures runs the thread of their strong faith and the joy of Christ’s birth.

ORDER Very Young Catholics in Austria

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