As a child waiting for Christmas is hard. Imagine waiting for Christmas when this is your holiday, your time to shine. Follow the ornaments along their journey as they wait for their special day.

Highlights various activities done in anticipation of Christmas.

Little children throughout the world wait impatiently for Christmas to arrive. As parents know, it can seem as if the days just crawl by. Now your family can learn and put to use Advent traditions from the country of Germany during the Christmas season. No doubt mothers have long been inventing ways to keep young children occupied during the Advent season—like Gerhard Lang’s mother, who in the mid-1800s helped her young son count the days on a calendar of cookies. In 1908, the grownup Gerhard, a printer, created the first commercial Advent calendar, twenty-four tiny pictures in the form of a calendar, from his fond memories. Waiting for Christmas tells the story of the young Gerhard—a story children everywhere will recognize as their own—and teaches us that we must wait patiently as we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Grandma helps Katie to fall asleep on Christmas Eve by telling her a story about a Christmas stocking. On board pages. A looped string is attached to the book enabling it to be hung from a Christmas tree.

The adorable Holly Babes are back, and now they are Waiting for Christmas. They want to make sure everything is just right for Christmas, so they trim their tree, sing their carols, and give out gifts. The Holly Babes' simple text and charming illustrations will fill readers with the anticipation of Christmas and the Christmas spirit.