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Home » Activities » Science » 5 Warm & Wonderful Winter Solstice Books for Kids

5 Warm & Wonderful Winter Solstice Books for Kids

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My boys are fascinated with daylight savings. Once I explained that the days are not actually shorter than 24 hours, they became even more fascinated with the idea of the earth rotating and the night descending upon us earlier during the fall and winter months. Although here in the Pacific Northwest we experience a dramatic shift in weather, we embrace and celebrate this time of year. Going outside during the winter months is as important and as much a priority as at any other point during the year. Winter solstice books are a fun way to explore culture, history, and even science.

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Check out our all time favorite children’s books for Winter Solstice!

Winter Solstice Books for Kids

Beautiful Winter Solstice Books for Kids

The Winter Solstice

The Winter Solstice offers a history and tells of the folklore of Winter Solstice through inviting art work and lovely prose.

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The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice

This book is sweet and does a wonderful job at describing the various ways cultures have celebrated winter solstice over the years. The illustrations are warm and cozy to the reader.

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A Solstice Tree for Jenny

Jenny’s parents grew up celebrated the holidays different from one another. As a family they don’t celebrate Christmas. So, Jenny feels a bit lost around this time of year. In this sweet book, Jenny discovers Winter Solstice thanks to a teacher and she ends up falling in love (as do her parents) with the celebration.

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The Tomten

An adorable book about a troll that keeps everyone’s eyes on the coming spring.

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Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights

This book introduces the places in the world where daylight is hard to come by during the winter months. Beautifully illustrated, the book ignites a desire to want to learn more about this intriguing phenomenon.

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Marnie

Tagged With: Book Lists, Kindergarten, Preschool, Winter

About Marnie Craycroft

Marnie hails from Maine where she spent summers buried in sand and winters buried in snow. She is the daughter of a nearly four decade veteran of the public school systems. Teaching has always been a part of her life. She founded Carrots Are Orange in 2010.

Carrots Are Orange is a Montessori learning and living website for parents and teachers.

Marnie graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a BA in Economics. She spent nearly a decade working in investment management. In 2006, she earned her MA in business from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999 and currently lives in Boulder with her husband and three sons. She is Montessori trained. Her work has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Buzzfeed, PBS Kids, BabyCenter, the Melissa & Doug blog, Huffington Post, and WhattoExpect.com. Besides writing, passions include running (usually after her three sons), photography, and outdoor adventures.

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