Beta

The Nutcracker Alternatives—
Suggestions for What to Read Next

The Nutcracker
The Polar Express
The Day Santa Stopped Believing in Harold
The Nutcracker
The Crippled Lamb
Puppy Who Wanted a Boy

Recommended

    picture • 32 Pages
    The Polar Express
    6.4
    Chris Van Allsburg
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Day Santa Stopped Believing in Harold
    6.3
    Maureen Fergus, Cale Atkinson
    picture • 40 Pages
    The Nutcracker
    5.3
    New York City Ballet, Valeria Docampo
    picture • 36 Pages
    The Crippled Lamb
    Max Lucado
    picture • 32 Pages
    Puppy Who Wanted a Boy
    Lisa McCue
    picture • 32 Pages
    Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story
    Cynthia Rylant
    picture • 32 Pages
    Tree of Cranes
    Allen Say
    picture • 32 Pages
    Bear's First Christmas
    Jim LaMarche, Robert Kinerk
    picture • 32 Pages
    Too Many Tamales
    5.0
    Gary Soto, Ed Martinez
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Little Fir Tree
    Margaret Wise Brown, Jim LaMarche
    picture • 32 Pages
    Brigid's Cloak
    Bryce Milligan, Helen Cann
    picture • 32 Pages
    Home for Christmas
    Jan Brett
    View more

Books about Christmas

    picture • 36 Pages
    The Nativity
    6.5
    Julie Vivas
    picture • 40 Pages
    Christmas Day in the Morning
    6.5
    Mark Buehner
    picture • 40 Pages
    The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
    6.4
    Susan Wojciechowski, P. J. Lynch
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Polar Express
    6.4
    Chris Van Allsburg
    picture • 40 Pages
    The Night Before Christmas
    6.4
    Clement C. Moore, Loren Long
    picture • 32 Pages
    Refuge
    6.3
    Anne Booth, Sam Usher
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Day Santa Stopped Believing in Harold
    6.3
    Maureen Fergus, Cale Atkinson
    picture • 48 Pages
    The Clown of God
    6.1
    Tomie dePaola
    picture • 48 Pages
    Christmas Tapestry
    6.1
    Patricia Polacco
    picture • 32 Pages
    Great Joy
    6.0
    Kate DiCamillo, Bagram Ibatoulline
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Legend of the Poinsettia
    5.9
    Tomie dePaola
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Night of His Birth
    5.9
    Katherine Paterson, Lisa Aisato

Books about fairy tales

    picture • 32 Pages
    Cinderella
    6.0
    K.Y. Craft, Mahlon F Craft
    picture • 32 Pages
    Fanny's Dream
    5.9
    Caralyn Buehner, Mark Buehner
    picture • 40 Pages
    The Sleeping Beauty
    5.5
    New York City Ballet, Valeria Docampo
    picture • 40 Pages
    Adelita
    5.5
    Tomie dePaola
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Talking Eggs
    5.4
    Robert D. San Souci, Jerry Pinkney
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Rough-Face Girl
    5.3
    Rafe Martin, David Shannon
    picture • 32 Pages
    Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China
    5.3
    Ai-Ling Louie
    picture • 32 Pages
    Snoring Beauty
    5.0
    Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, Jane Manning
    picture • 32 Pages
    Cinderella
    Charles Perrault, Loek Koopmans
    picture • 40 Pages
    The Sleeping Beauty
    David McAllister, Gabriela Tylesova
    picture • 40 Pages
    Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Prince
    Paul Galdone, Mr Richard Edward Hargreaves
    picture • 32 Pages
    Very Little Sleeping Beauty
    Series
    Teresa Heapy, Sue Heap

Trending books

    picture • 32 Pages
    Turkey Trouble
    4.0
    Series
    Wendi Silvano, Lee Harper
    picture • 40 Pages
    Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
    5.8
    Melissa Sweet
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Leaf Thief
    5.0
    Nicola Slater
    picture • 36 Pages
    The Wonderful Things You Will Be
    6.1
    Emily Winfield Martin
    picture • 32 Pages
    See You Later, Alligator
    4.5
    Sally Hopgood, Emma Levey
    picture • 40 Pages
    Dragons Love Tacos
    5.1
    #1 in Series
    Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri
    picture • 32 Pages
    If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
    5.3
    #1 in Series
    Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond
    picture • 48 Pages
    Where the Wild Things Are
    6.7
    Maurice Sendak
    picture • 40 Pages
    How to Catch a Gingerbread Man
    Adam Wallace, Andy Elkerton
    picture • 40 Pages
    Why a Son Needs a Mom
    Gregory E. Lang, Susanna Leonard Hill
    picture • 32 Pages
    Grumpy Monkey
    4.8
    Series
    Suzanne Lang, Max Lang
    picture • 32 Pages
    Why a Daughter Needs a Dad
    Gregory E. Lang, Sydney Hanson

Books about fiction

    picture • 32 Pages
    The Storybook Knight
    5.9
    Thomas Docherty, Helen Docherty
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Dragon and the Nibblesome Knight
    5.6
    Elli Woollard, Benji Davies
    picture • 40 Pages
    Duncan the Story Dragon
    5.6
    Amanda Driscoll
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Worst Princess
    5.5
    Anna Kemp, Sara Ogilvie
    picture • 32 Pages
    Dragons: Father and Son
    5.1
    Series
    Alexandre Lacroix, Ronan Badel
    picture • 40 Pages
    The Book Dragon
    5.1
    Kell Andrews, Éva Chatelain
    picture • 32 Pages
    Franklin's Flying Bookshop
    Jen Campbell, Katie Harnett
    picture • 32 Pages
    Dragons from Mars
    4.4
    #1 in Series
    Deborah Aronson, Collin Jack
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Night Dragon
    Naomi Howarth
    picture • 36 Pages
    The Dragon's Toothache
    Annie Besant, Rayika Sen
    picture • 32 Pages
    Casey Back at Bat
    7.0
    Dan Gutman, Steve Johnson, Lou Fancher
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake: A Book about Kitchen Chemistry
    Joanna Cole

Books about Christmas and advent

    picture • 36 Pages
    The Nativity
    6.5
    Julie Vivas
    picture • 40 Pages
    Christmas Day in the Morning
    6.5
    Mark Buehner
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Polar Express
    6.4
    Chris Van Allsburg
    picture • 40 Pages
    The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
    6.4
    Susan Wojciechowski, P. J. Lynch
    picture • 40 Pages
    The Night Before Christmas
    6.4
    Clement C. Moore, Loren Long
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Day Santa Stopped Believing in Harold
    6.3
    Maureen Fergus, Cale Atkinson
    picture • 32 Pages
    Refuge
    6.3
    Anne Booth, Sam Usher
    picture • 48 Pages
    The Clown of God
    6.1
    Tomie dePaola
    picture • 48 Pages
    Christmas Tapestry
    6.1
    Patricia Polacco
    picture • 32 Pages
    Great Joy
    6.0
    Kate DiCamillo, Bagram Ibatoulline
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Legend of the Poinsettia
    5.9
    Tomie dePaola
    picture • 40 Pages
    The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: The Dance of the Realms
    5.8
    Calliope Glass, Marco Bucci, Misty Copeland

Classics

    picture • 45 Pages
    Madeline
    6.3
    Series
    Ludwig Bemelmans
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Very Hungry Caterpillar
    Eric Carle
    picture • 34 Pages
    Harold and the Purple Crayon
    Crockett Johnson
    picture • 48 Pages
    The Night Gardener
    5.9
    Terry Fan, Eric Fan
    picture • 48 Pages
    The Little Engine That Could: 90th Anniversary Edition
    5.8
    Series
    Watty Piper, Dan Santat
    picture • 42 Pages
    Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
    5.8
    William Steig
    picture • 32 Pages
    Town Mouse, Country Mouse
    5.8
    Jan Brett
    picture • 48 Pages
    The Velveteen Rabbit
    5.7
    Margery Williams, William Nicholson
    picture • 32 Pages
    Little Red Riding Hood
    5.6
    Trina Schart Hyman, Brothers Grimm
    picture • 40 Pages
    Officer Buckle and Gloria
    5.6
    Peggy Rathmann
    picture • 32 Pages
    Corduroy
    Don Freeman
    picture • 48 Pages
    The Runaway Bunny
    5.5
    Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd

Bookroo

Book Clubs

Follow Bookroo