Reading order
Christmas reading order
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- Score
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 2015–2017
- Published
- about 16 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
Quick answer
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Publication order
3 volumes2015–2017Completed
- Matt Haig’s illustrated Christmas books for children, drawn by Chris Mould.
- A Boy Called Christmas, the first and the one with enough ratings, is an origin story for Father Christmas: Nikolas, a poor woodcutter’s son with a sledge and a mouse for company, travels to the far north in search of his father and finds the elf village of Elfhelm, which is losing its joy.
- Funny, sad and warm; filmed in 2021.
- The sequels follow a girl who believes in magic and a human child adopted by Father Christmas.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 874 pages, about 16 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 3 weeks.
Stages
This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 19, 2026.
- Stage 116 habout 3 weeksby November 19, 2026
- 1. A Boy Called Christmas
- 2. The Girl Who Saved Christmas
- 3. Father Christmas and Me
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Christmas book is the longest?
“The Girl Who Saved Christmas” is the longest at 328 pages; the shortest is “A Boy Called Christmas” with 242 pages.