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A fun, noisy retelling of the Christmas story for children aged 2-4. Invites children to join in with shouts & songs. A wonderful Christmas gift for toddlers
Part of the Very Best Bible Stories Series
We often think of the first Christmas as a silent night.
Peaceful. Quiet. A gentle baby sleeping in a manger while angels hover softly overhead and shepherds tiptoe reverently through the darkness.
But what if the first Christmas was actually a great deal noisier than that?
What if it was filled with the sound of angels shouting with joy, shepherds running and calling out to one another, a baby crying in a stable, and the whole creation breaking into the kind of noise that only the most extraordinary news in the history of the universe could produce?
A Very Noisy Christmas is a wonderfully fun, genuinely interactive, and joyfully energetic retelling of the Christmas story for children aged 2 to 4 — one that invites young children not just to listen but to join in. To make noise. To shout and sing and respond to the most exciting birth announcement the world has ever heard with the kind of whole-body, unselfconscious, utterly delightful noise that only very young children can produce with complete abandon.
This is Christmas as it was always meant to be celebrated — not in hushed reverence alone, but with the joyful, exuberant, thoroughly noisy enthusiasm that the arrival of God's Son into the world genuinely deserves.
The association of Christmas with silence and peacefulness is beautiful — and not entirely wrong. There is genuine wonder and genuine stillness in the nativity scene. The intimacy of a mother and her newborn child. The quiet of a stable late at night.
But the Bible's account of the first Christmas is also full of noise. The angels did not whisper their announcement to the shepherds — they proclaimed it with the kind of glory that left those shepherds terrified before they were overjoyed. The shepherds did not quietly make their way to Bethlehem — they hurried, and when they had seen the baby they went out and told everyone they met what they had heard and seen. Mary sang. Zechariah prophesied. Simeon broke into praise. Anna gave thanks to God loudly enough for everyone in the temple to hear.
The first Christmas was a noisy event. And A Very Noisy Christmas captures that noise — and invites the youngest children to add their own voices to it.
What makes A Very Noisy Christmas particularly special for children aged 2 to 4 is its regular invitations to make noise — built into the text at natural moments throughout the story, inviting children to respond to what they are hearing with their voices, their bodies, and their whole enthusiastic selves.
This interactivity is not just fun — though it is genuinely, delightfully fun. It is also genuinely effective as a way of helping very young children engage with and remember the story they are hearing. Children at this age learn through participation. They learn through movement and sound and response. A story that invites them in — that gives them a role to play, a sound to make, a response to offer — is a story they engage with far more deeply than one they simply observe.
By the time the story is finished, children who have made noise throughout it will have participated in the Christmas story in a way that makes it genuinely their own — a story they were part of, not just a story they heard.
For all its fun and its noise, A Very Noisy Christmas carries a genuinely profound message at its centre — the message that is the reason for all the noise in the first place:
The birth of God's Son, Jesus, who came to make a friendship with God possible for everyone.
This is the truth that made the angels shout. This is the truth that sent the shepherds running. This is the truth that has been making noise across twenty centuries of Christmas celebrations and that gives every child who hears this story their own reason to join in.
Not just a baby in a manger. Not just a warm seasonal story. But the arrival of the Son of God into the world — the moment when heaven came to earth, when God became a child, when the friendship between God and human beings that sin had broken was opened up again through the one who came to restore it.
That is the noise A Very Noisy Christmas is making. And it invites every child who hears it to make that noise too.
A Very Noisy Christmas is ideal for:
A Very Noisy Christmas is specifically identified as a wonderful gift or stocking stuffer for children aged 2 to 4 — and it is easy to see why. It is:
Whether given as a Christmas gift to a young child in your own family, shared with a toddler group, distributed at a church Christmas event, or used in a Sunday school nativity activity — A Very Noisy Christmas is a resource that serves beautifully in every context.
A Very Noisy Christmas is part of the Very Best Bible Stories series — a collection of Bible storybooks designed to bring the stories of Scripture to life for the very youngest children in an accessible, engaging, and genuinely faith-forming way. Each title in the series is crafted with the same commitment to both genuine enjoyment and genuine theological faithfulness that characterises A Very Noisy Christmas.
The angels made noise. The shepherds made noise. The whole heavenly host broke into the kind of praise that shook the night sky over Bethlehem with the sound of the best news the world had ever heard.
Christmas is a noisy event. It always was. And A Very Noisy Christmas is an invitation to every young child — and every parent who reads it with them — to add their own voices to the noise that has been going on ever since that first extraordinary night.
Because the arrival of God's Son is worth making noise about. Now. Always. Together.
