Reddit mentions of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Classic Seuss)

These are the books I've kept from my sizeable home library on the off chance I have grandchildren. They are in no particular order.

• Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy -- Animals inspect a snowman, eat his nose and mouth, and then kids in hiding who watched it all put more food on the snowman for the animals, having planned for the animals to dine all along.
  
  
• Frosty the Snowman -- Adapted from the song by Annie North Bedford. There are versions that use the artwork from the animated TV special, but I prefer this one with vintage illustrations by Corinne Malvern.
  
  
• The Night before Christmas by Clement Moore. It's in the public domain, so there are many versions. Choose the artwork you like.
  
  
• Santa Cows -- A modern family is hanging out at home eating pizza. They hear the sound of hooves on their roof, and they spend the night with a herd of cows in their home. It ends with the family playing baseball in the snow with the cows. The text is reminiscent of The Night Before Christmas.
  
  
• The Polar Express -- It's a charming, peaceful book. It's nothing like the movie. The film made my kids cry... terror scene, calm scene, terror scene, calm scene, repeat.
  
  
• Countdown to Christmas -- This is a must if you are a Bill Peet fan, a prolific children's picture book author from yesteryear.
  
  
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
  
  
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer -- This is a reprint of the original from 1939 sold in Montgomery Ward stores. The author, Robert L. May, was an advertising copyrighter for Montgomery Ward.
  
  
• There are two Rudolph sequels. From Wikipedia: "May wrote two sequels to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The first is mostly in prose (except that Rudolph speaks in anapestic tetrameter), written in 1947 but only published posthumously as Rudolph's Second Christmas (1992), and subsequently with the title Rudolph to the Rescue (2006). The second sequel is entirely in anapaestic tetrameter like the original: Rudolph Shines Again (1954)."
  
  
• Olive the Other Reindeer -- This is a popular story about a dog who hears the song lyric "all of the other reindeer," decides he must be a reindeer, and heads to the North Pole.
  
  
• Santa has a Busy Night -- This is an unremarkable telling of the nuts and bolts of Santa Claus, but I wanted one book that told the basic myth in plainer detail than The Night Before Christmas. It mentions Santa travels to places where it's summer, and that kids don't get everything they want because he can't carry everything in his pack, but doesn't explain how he enters homes that have pipe chimneys or no chimney at all.
  
  
• Robot Santa -- This is a sequel to Santa's Twin, written by Dean Koontz, a horror fiction writer. I don't own the first book and didn't realize it was a sequel until now. It's for a kid age 5+, not scary, but maybe too developed a story for a young child. A much older child, or maybe just parents, might enjoy the Die Hard and Home Alone picture books.
  
  
• Night Tree -- A family's annual Christmas tradition is to walk into the forest and cut down a tree find the same live tree from last year and decorate it with food for the forest animals to eat. It's by prolific author Eve Bunting. I really enjoyed this story.
  
  
• Auntie Claus -- I can't vouch for this book as I have little memory of it, but my wife is upset to learn while I was compiling this list that I apparently culled it from our collection.
  
  For a Nutcracker book, visit a good bookstore. You'll want to find the right balance between the heft of the words and the style of artwork. Some Nutcracker books have gorgeous illustrations while others are cartoonish.
  
  A lot of my recommendations are only available for sale as used copies because my collection was built from attending garage sales and scouring thrift stores every week for more than a decade. You can use AbeBooks to search for books in used bookstores across America.

My favorite book as a child? That's hard because there were a lot but I'm going to say The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien and Sabriel by Garth Nyx.

I have several children's books on my Books and Things wishlist but my 7 year old, who is just getting more interested in reading, really wants How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Dr. Suess is his absolute favorite author and How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey is his favorite movie.

Thanks for the contest!