3 Children's Christmas French Books to Add to Your Family Library

As a child, Christmas is all about the experiences of movies, stories, and letting your imagination go wild. It's a joy as a parent to be able to foster these memories and times of imagination. To add an educational element to your Christmas holidays, there's some excellent French children's books you should consider adding to your library. While you may not know French at all, learning how to read French with your children can increase your own knowledge of the language while giving your children a head start in their language learning.

These 3 French children's books can help you start introducing the French language to your children this holiday season.

Le Petit Lapin de Noël: (The Christmas Bunny) by Nadja and Olga Lecaye

One Christmas, the main character of this French children's book, Le Petit Lapin, is waiting with his brothers and sisters for Father Christmas to arrive. But there's a big snowstorm this year that has possibly hidden their house from Father Christmas's eyes. Eventually, Le Petit Lapin waits all alone for Santa to arrive while his brothers and sisters give up and go back to sleep. Stories like this are perfect French books for children as the illustrations often depict what's being written in words. In the future, this will help your children remember any French that they've learned since they'll have a strong association to the vocabulary and expressions in their mind.

Demain C'est Noël: (It's Christmas Tomorrow) by Claire Masurel and Marie H. Henry.

This is a French childrens book that will resonate with the many children who anticipate the arrival of Christmas and Santa Claus. This book makes a great addition to your French children's book collection with its descriptions of preparing for Christmas and all that comes with it. Looking through the eyes of a young girl, you see what it's like to decorate the house, choose the most beautiful Christmas tree, and sleep in anticipation of all the gifts that will be under the tree on Christmas morning. You can use the vocabulary in this French children's book to put labels around your house with the French names of common Christmas objects. Then, try creating small games for your children to help them remember the French words they've learned.

Noël Chez Papy-Loup: (Christmas at Grandpa Wolf's House) by Sylvie Auzary-Luton

Adults and children alike spend their Christmas day with families. In Christmas at Grandpa Wolf's House, a child wolf can't stand still. All he wants to do is run off to his grandpa's house because he knows presents galore are waiting for him there. Christmas at Grandpa Wolf's House will remind your children of the importance of being around family during the holiday season. French children's books like this can help your children learn French because they contain natural language that native speakers of the language use all the time. Instead of your child learning French later on in life by akward grammar exercises, they can start with books like these and learn the patterns of language in a more natural way.

Searching for places to buy French children's books online will be a little bit difficult if you don't have any previous of knowledge of the language. One place to start is Amazon Canada which carries both French and English books. Also, The Amazon France website does offer help in English here. If you already have an Amazon account, ordering should be easy despite the language difference. To share the joy of Christmas through French children's books is worth the effort.