Clifford's Christmas

by Norman Bridwell

Clifford the Big Red Dog (an 8x8 booklet)

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It's Christmas time for Emily Elizabeth and Clifford! While they count down the days to their favorite holiday, Clifford gets a tree, a stocking, and a surprise under the mistletoe.

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Clifford plays in the snow and helps Santa a little. It's pretty sleepy as far as Clifford books go.
Clifford's Christmas by Norman Bridwell is a great Christmas book to read to the readers during the Christmas holidays. The children will love the illustrations that this picture book offers. This fiction book is very simple to read, and it is a fun picture book that all children should read at least one time. In this story, Clifford loves making snowmen, playing ice hockey, and helping out with the tree-- children can relate to those things because all children love doing those kinds of things. I read this picture book to my niece this year on Christmas Eve, and she still asks me to read it to her.
Clifford Christmas by Norman Bridlewell
This audio book has sounds to help turn your page and is a delightful cheerful book to listen to.
Talks of how they start the holiday Season at Thanksgiving, after the parade and Clifford sees Santa.
Snow happens and their friends make a snowman with the help of Clifford, the dog. Ice hockey and then......the tree, way too big but just right for Cliffords' house..
Other favorite times, mistletoe, and Christmas eve. Book is not describing the details, you really need the book to follow along with the whole story. Other mishaps occur but all is set right.
The second half of this book is the same story, just told without page turn signals.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD show more (Braille Audio Reading Device). show less
This Clifford book is about how Clifford and his friends get ready for Christmas. It talks about all the different holiday festivities that they did/are able to do in the Winter time. This book series would be good for second graders and up in my opinion. This book would make for a great Social studies culture because it talks about the families during Christmas time/ how America usually celebrates the holiday.
All the usual Christmas stuff happens, along with a mini emergency. Santa gets stuck in Clifford’s stocking, has to be rescued, and his toys, which fell in Clifford’s water dish, have to be dried off.
With his own tree and a Clifford-size stocking hanging on the door, Clifford seems ready for Christmas, but he is not prepared for Santa sliding down the chimney and falling into his stocking. Paperback copy.
Clifford is a big red dog. Emily Elizabeth is his best friend and in this Christmas book they both were counting down the days until Christmas. They were playing ice hockey but soon learned Clifford was way to big to play. On Christmas Eve Santa came to Clifford's and fell off the roof! Santa had dropped all of the toys in Clifford's water bowl. Clifford offered his toys for Santa to bring to all of the other children. Santa snapped his fingers and like magic all the toys were dry. The next morning Clifford and Emily Elizabeth opened their gifts and had a wonderful Christmas.
Classroom extension:
1. The students could draw Clifford, Santa, and Emily Elizabeth.
2. Since this is a Kindergarten book and a Christmas book the students could show more tell stories of the Christmas's they remember and the teacher could type their stories and put the story on their drawing of Clifford, Santa, and Emily Elizabeth. show less

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Norman Bridwell was born on February 15, 1928 in Kokomo, Indiana. He attended the John Herron Art Institute from 1945 to 1949 and Cooper Union Art School from 1952 to 1953. After graduating from Cooper Union, he worked first as a messenger for a lettering company and then as an artist designer for Raxon Fabrics Company. After that, he spent three show more years with H. D. Rose and Company as an artist, before becoming a freelance artist in 1956. In 1963, he published his first children's book, Zany Zoo, as well as his first Clifford book, Clifford the Big Red Dog. During his lifetime, he wrote and illustrated more than 150 books including The Witch Next Door, A Tiny Family, Clifford Goes to Kindergarten, and Clifford Celebrates Hanukkah. He died following a fall at his home on December 12, 2014 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Clifford's Christmas
Original publication date
1984
People/Characters
Clifford the Big Red Dog; Emily Elizabeth; Santa Claus
Dedication
For Jesse
First words
Hi! I'm Emily Elizabeth. This is my dog Clifford. Guess what holiday it is!
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And Clifford is a wonderful dog. He makes every day Christmas Day.
Original language
English

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Genres
Children's Books, Picture Books
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PZ7 .B7633 .CLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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