It’s Christmas, David!
Being a kid is hard. Being a kid waiting for Christmas to come is even harder and David Shannon remembers what it was like. As parents we try so hard to teach appreciation, gratefulness and patience but it’s so hard to be any of those things when you are little and very very excited! In this book we follow David as he gets scolded for trying to grab Christmas cookies, for peeking at gifts, and my son’s favorite naughty behavior, writing his name in the snow…with pee. Over the years I have had readers say that they aren’t a fan of the original No! David because they worried it would spark naughty ideas but that is not what these books do. Young kids have a very natural sense of what is right and wrong and they are laughing because they know what he is doing is wrong and even David knows that he has messed up, as he fears Santa will leave him nothing but coal. Of course we all know that David is not a bad kid ( Are there bad kids? I don’t think so! ) and his heart is in the right place even if sometimes he makes bad choices. Both my kids loved this book and I loved the underlying message to parents that being a kid is tough especially when parents are busy.
Now here is the best part! This book was supplied to me by Scholastic Book Club to review and is featiured in their December Book Club fliers ( so if you get them look out for it! ) and they are also giving me one to give away. Hooray!
To enter for a chance to win your own copy of It’s Christmas, David! by David Shannon all you need to do is leave a comment on this post telling me the title of your all time favorite book.
The giveaway will close Sunday December 4th 2011 at 10pm PST. The winner will be chosen by random.org and please only one entry per person.
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Disclosure : I was not paid for this review although I did get to choose the book I recieved free to keep and giveaway. All opinions are mine .161 Responses to “It’s Christmas, David! – Review & Giveaway”
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My all-time favorite fiction book is Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but I’m pretty sure my daughter’s is The Tushy Book!
Princess baby! by karen katz .. thanks for the giveaway
Rainbow fish. Thanks for the fun giveaway we LOVE books!
My favorite book? That’s tough. I love so many. I’ll go with Bel Canto By Ann Patchett. Thanks for the giveaway. We love David and hit antics.
Growing up I loved the ramona books, now I’m learning all new books since I have a son. My favorite book for me is To Kill a Mockingbird. Thanks!
Good Night, Moon!
My all-time favorite? that is a hard question…”anne of green gables” is probably the winner.
I would love to win this for my son who is named “david.”
There are so many. I always have love the Little House on the Prairie books.
Oh gosh…I don’t know that I can pick a favorite book…there are so many! My 2.5 year old’s favorite books are Blueberries for Sal, Pinkalicious, and anything Little Critter though!
I’d have to say 1984. It’s one book I can read over and over and still enjoy.
My all-time favorite book- How Green Was My Valley by Edward Llywellan. My son loves these books.
Ender’s Game
The book looks cute! My favorite book is The Snowy Day, and i think it may be my daughter’s too, although her favorite changes often!
The Secret Garden… and hopefully it will be my daughter’s favorite one day
Hmm.. I’d say Goodnight Moon!
My favorite book is David Goes to School.
WOW– One book– now that is hard! I must say Corduroy by Don Freeman.It is the first book I bought for my first child 11 years ago and all 3 kids LOVE it and it has that “emotional connection” for me!
I just picked this up from the library yesterday and we read it last night! The kids loved it!
My favorite book would have to be The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye. It’s awesome!!!
My all time favorite book is Little Women
Time For Bed. Such a beautiful and sweet book.
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery. It just made me feel less alone.
All time Favorite book is The Lorax by Dr. Seuss , I think it is the most beautiful, and truthful book that all can learn from young and old.
“I’ll Love You Forever” is my all time favorite. My mom used to read it to us and to this day still includes the poem in cards. When my daughter was born she gave me my own copy
Pride and predjudice
I really liked “the Berenstain Bears and the messy room”. I hope I win the book for my little ones!!
Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree!
Eloise is my all time fave since my own childhood. even though i’ve been blessed with two boys, we all find it to be whimsical and worldly. “absolutely love the plaza!” Thanks for another great giveaway
My all-time favorite book is the help by kathryin stockett. My 2-year old son’s current favorite is green eggs and ham.
Aesops Fables, any of them. I remember reading them at beadtime with my Grandma.
My all time Favorite book is – Mr. Popper’s Penguins!
My favorite is Chicka Chicka Boom BOom! Can’t wait to read It’s Christmas, David!
Our favourite book to read is “How do dinosaurs say goodnight?”
My face book as a child was “now we are six” by aa milne
Good Night Moon
That is a tough one. Right now in my life I need a good laugh; any Janet Evanovich book.
That’s such a tough question! I love our Dr. Seuss books that were passed down to my son from when my dad was a boy–especially The Sleep Book and I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Saloo. Thanks for the giveaway!
Well it sounds like “it’s Christmas, David!” is a bit of an edgy book, but that’s ok because your explanation of it makes a lot of sense.
I have to go with another Dr. Seuss book for a favorite, one that not so many people are familiar with, “McElligot’s Pool” – Thanks!
It’s so hard to pick a favorite but off the top of my head I’d say “Elmer” (the very colorful elephant).
our favorite thing to read right now are fairytales. I have a book with a huge selection of fairtales, fables, and the like. I have always loved reading them and am especially excited my son likes to hear them now too.
My sister wrote a book for my first daughter, it’s called “My name is Isa”, it is by far my all time favorite!
My all-time favorite book is “Drowning Ruth.” For kids it’s “Goodnight Moon”
My favorite book to read to my children is Harold and the Purple Crayon. we have a collection and adore it. Also love the Skippyjon Jones series.
All time favorite book? -That’s a hard one! How about my all time favorite children’s christmas book? I dearly love Christmas Is Here by Lauren Castillo.
Oooo, so hard to choose just one!!! My answer may be different tomorrow, but today i’d say “Green Eggs & Ham” because it’s just so much fun to read with kids! Thanks for the giveaway!
I just love the David books. My son IS David! But as for my all time favorite book….hmmmm…I really have to choose just one????? I’ve read “The Phantom of the Opera” several times as well as “Many Waters” by Madeleine L’Engle. Might be tied. The Secret Garden would be a close 2nd.
So hard to chose, but I really love Molly Lou Melon!
My favorite book – Number the Stars by lois lowry but my children’s favorite books are the ugly pumpkin and fantastic mr fox
That is a great book too. A companion book to that would be The Yellow Star. I taught fourth grade and read Number the Stars with a small group and The yellow Star to the whole class. I always got teary eyed.
That is so hard!
The little mouse, the red ripe strawberry, and the big hungry bear.
My sons love that book too!
I’m not sure I can pick a single favorite, but two of my top books are “If I Ran the Zoo” and “The Little Princess”.
My favorite of all time is The Yellow Star-picture book about denmark during wwII. Very touching.
So many favorite books…I’ll have to go with the book that I’m currently loving reading to my daughter – Christmas in the Big Woods.
The Snowman – it gets me every time, just pulls those heart strings. As a child, I remember how I loved “getting” the story with just the pictures and my imagined dialogue.
Anne of green gables!
Just read a story last night for the first time last night called the terrible Teddy bear – so cute!
We read Polly’s Pink Pajamas a lot around here!
While it’s not my favorite children’s book- it certainly is one of my favorite to read to my kiddos- LLAMA LLAMA RED PAJAMA!
My favorite book has been Green eggs and ham!
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Running with scissors
My favourite book? hard to say only one, but the first one that came to my mind is the neverending story. I love it, i can’t wait to read it to my children, but they are too little yet.
my all time favorite book is probably Esperanza Rising. But it is hard to choose a favorite. My kids would really enjoy this book however.
Possum magic is my favorite children’s book.
Hmmm…my favorite book is the great santini!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
thanx for the giveaway
Oh, boy. My favorite book is probably Tuesdays with Morrie.
I love the David series…so happy to see more being written! My all time favorite book is The Wizard of Oz…I could read it again and again.
My favorite? That’s tough…I think I”ll go with Andrea’s answer too…Love Tuesdays with morrie…in High school my favorite was A Tale of Two Cities. My older girl likes Cam Jansen.
My all time fave book? Well, for kids books it has to be The Paper Bag Princess by Ribert Munsch. But honestly, between kids & adult books there are just too many great books to choose from!
My all time favorite book is “Are you my mother” by Dr. Seuss! i have a 2 1/2 year old little girl who is just beginning to love his books!
I’d have to say my favorite book is Jane Eyre. Thank you for the chance to win!
My favorite book is Heidi!
My all time favorite book is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
My family & I love the David books too. They are just the perfect balance of mischief and curiosity, this one sounds like a keeper too!
The harry potter series is my all time favorite books
It’s so hard to choose just one all time favorite book! I’d have to say one on the top of my list is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, I love reading it every single time!
There are so many, but if I had to choose only one, my favorite children’s book would be “Ish” by Peter h. Reynolds.
The Bible
Can’t come up with just one! Kid book–Are You My Mother?
My personal favorite book is the Bible, but my favorite kid’s book would have to be No, David! by David Shannon.
Goodnight Moon is a good one!
I loved the Dorrie the good witch books as a kid and The Secret Garden.
My favorite book of all time is Gone with the Wind. I love Goodnight Moon for my kids.
My favorite is The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
This book looks adorable!
My all time favorite…anything Micheal Crichton I can read over and over.
my all time favorite is the secret garden
The most popular book in my house right now is goodnight moon! My favorite book of all time is 3rd and indiana. Thanks for the giveaway!!
Mine is 100 Years of Solitude. My favorite from when I was younger is From the mixed of Files of Mrs Basil E Freankweiler. I can’t wait for my daughter to be old enough to read it as I know she’ll love it, too. My son LOVES the David books. As an active little boy, I think he can relate!
We’re big fans of Duck in the Truck by jez alborough here. My little guy can’t get enough of that book.
I am a Speech-Language Pathologist and my favorite book to use with my students is called, ‘Cook-a-Doodle Doo’. It’s a take off of ‘The Little Red Hen’ and features her grandaughter who bakes strawberry shortcake with the help of three animals. There are tons of multiple meaning words that the animals take literally and all sorts of mishaps occur. My students love the book, laugh at the animals mistakes with language, and as an added bonus we make strawberry shortcake after reading the story!
I love the Anne of Green Gables series
My son’s favorite book is SmaSH Crash by Jon Sciesaka!
My favorite books to read to my daughter our the Llama Llama series.
Charlotte’s Web!
My favorite is “I’ll love you Forever” and of course I love all the Mo David books!
My favorite is “Raising your spirited child”
“Mama Zooms” is my favourite. It’s a special book between my daughter and me
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Inch by Inch is a great book. Thanks!
My daughters favorite book is Llama Llama Red Pajama
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My favorite book is Little Women. My son’s is Truckery rhymes.
Fave book of all time? That’s tough. I’ve probably read “Ahab’s Wife” the most times, though, so I’ll go with that one!
I love Pete the Cat!
The Pokey Little Puppy
Mine is Charlotte’s Web. I think that my son loves anything maisy and he LOVES No David! I would love to get this Christmas book for him as well!
My kids and i all love stories by jan brett. she creates neat storylines and her illustrations are beautiful!
My favorite book right now is The Help, my son loves Cars and Trucks and Things that Go by Richard Scarry
“the four agreements” now and “Blueberries for sal” when i was a child.
One of my favorite books to read is Paperbag princess by robert munch
My favorite book would be the princess bride, my kids however love, love, love the pigeon books.
Big people book: The agony and the Ecstasy by irving stone. first read it as a junior in high school and it changed the way i thought about life, about art, about books, about school. everything.
Little people book: the chronicles of narnia… all of them.
Little House on the Prairie
My very favorite book is “Where the Wild Things Are”. I loved it as a kid. My husband loved it as a kid. I love that we can recite the book together in the car to entertain our cranky boy – from memory! We all roar our terrible roars, gnash our terrible teeth, and show our terrible claws!
My favorite all-time book? Ugh. That’s a tough one. It’s like having to choose my favorite child. No, David was my son’s favorite book of 2008. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. There. That’s my answer.
My favorite book is “The Wizard of Oz”. My oldest daughter just read the book and we both enjoyed it together.
That’s a tough question! That’s changed so many times in my life. Right now i’d say it’s The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Thanks!
Robert munsch’s Love You Forever…best book!
Angela
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My all time favorite book is the giver
I really love The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue monk Kidd. thanks for the great giveaway!
Seriously, the entire Harry Potter series. I have read it and listened to it via audio book more times than I can dare count and I still pick up on new things each time. Thanks so much for this giveaway!
The never ending story
one of our favorite books is guess how much i love you by sam mcbratney, my email is
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Thanks!
One of my all time favorite books is called “a Confederacy of Dunces”. Hilarious!
Loving little pea right now!
Number the Stars. Is this really all I do?
The Maggie B
By Irene Haas
my favorite children’s book is Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present. it has beautiful illustrations, and is a great story. I love the David books, too. My Pre-K class adores all of them.
Right now, my daughter and I both love The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
soooooo many — Hunger Games, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Giver, Mr. Was (I teach English). Kid favs: The Giving Tree, Mommy Mine, The Rain Came Down, Too Many Toys, all of the Chris Van Allsburg books, Shel Silverstein poems, and so many more…
Alltime favorite is a hard one but a favorite from my childhood that I enjoy reading to my boys now is “Where the Wild Things Are.”. Though on second thought it migth have to be a Sel Silverstein book, either “Where the Sidewalk Ends” or “There’s a Light in the Attic”.
fried green tomatoes!
My favourite book this time of year is The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn.
My favorite book is” Are you My Mother?”
MY favorite book is the Scarlet Letter. Favorite book to read to my children is Good Night Moon.
My favorite children’s books are the dr. suess books.
my favorite…My Friend and i by Lisa Jahn Clough.
My favorite book… Teacher from the Black Lagoon. I read it to my first graders every year!
The little mouse, the red ripe strawberry, and the big hungry bear.
Ann of green gables
My daughter’s favorite is there’s an alligator under my bed & I have too many to narrow it down to 1!
To many favorites to choose one…will buy anything sandra boyton for my boys though.
I grew up on Dr. Suess so he’s my favorite. I love oh the places you’ll go. I work in an elementary school Library and one of your books go out at least once a week usually more! My student would love this new book!!
My favourite children’s book is Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McKlosky.
i cannot pick one favorite…there are too many!
My son loves “David” books!!
The Monster at the end of this book!
My favortie all time book is Alice in Wonderland
My Favorite book is The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. I can read it over and over again!
Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon by: Patty Lovelle is my favorite childrens book or at least one of the several.
Nancy Tillman’s On the Night You Were Born. Bought it for Russell when he was born and read it at nap time for years. Every time I knew he fell asleep knowing how special he was and it made me cry almost every time as well. I have given it as gifts over and over as well.
i love Maniac Magee.
Thanks,
Caterina
My favorite book is “the Awakening” by Kate Chopin and I’d have to say that my son’s favorite is “Fox in Socks” by Dr. Seuss!
I loved reading runaway Bunny to my daughter when she was a young child and now enjoy sharing the story to my grand-daughter.
The Froggy series is a big hit in our house.
My favorite adult book is Outlander. It’s so hard to choose just one children’s book – growing up I loved The Phantom Tollbooth, but I love reading the Beatrix Potter stories to my own kids now. And we all love the David books!
My daughter’s favorite book is “The Pain & the Great One” by Beverly Cleary. My son’s favorite is the Bible story of David and Goliath…and the Veggie Tales version…and the Caleb & Katie version… My favorites are the Harry Potter series. Fun for the whole family!
My favorite book as a child was Inside, Outside, Upside Down. My 2nd favorite was One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. I’m super excited for the book giveaway!
I Am A Bunny is my favorite book of all time!
My daughter and I both love Is Your Mama a Llama?
That’s a really hard question! I have to say a favorite is definately Time for Bed.
my all time favorite among so many? Depends on my mood….Hawk, I’m Your Brother by Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall is probably the one I’d choose today!
Goodnight Moon is my favorite now.