A baby's first Christmas is a gift occasion aimed at somebody who will not remember it. That is not a criticism — it is the whole design constraint. The book is being bought for the adults now and for the child in about eight years.
Three books here do that job, and they separate on price and on whether faith is part of it.
The two secular versions
Baby's First Christmas is the fuller of the two. It works through the lights, the laughter and the sequence of once-in-a-lifetime firsts, and it is framed openly as a keepsake for parents to bring out year after year rather than as a story for the baby. It starts at $39.99.
First Christmas takes a tighter approach at $19.99, walking the season sense by sense — the lights, the paper, the songs, all brand new to exactly one person in the room — with the name printed through the story.
That sense-by-sense structure is the reason to prefer it for an actual infant. A baby's first Christmas is sensory: they are not following a narrative, they are being handed a month of new noise and light. A book built the same way reads more honestly, and it is half the price.
The faith version
This Christmas, God Gave Us You celebrates the child as God's most precious gift and roots the season's wonder in that. At $39.99 it sits at the same price as the first.
Two things worth saying plainly about it. It is the right choice for an observant family and the wrong one for a family that is not — a faith keepsake given to people who do not share it becomes an awkward object rather than a treasured one. And it doubles as a christening or dedication gift if the baby happens to be doing both in the same winter, which is common enough to be worth noticing.
Where these differ from the parent books
These three are about the baby. The six first Christmas books aimed at new mothers, fathers and grandparents are about the adult, told in various voices.
The practical consequence is at the wrapping stage. These three go to the parents as a record of their child. The parent titles go to a specific named adult and only make sense given to that person. If you are buying one gift for a household, these are the safer pick. If you are buying for a named individual, they are not.
What actually makes it last
The reason to buy any of these is the December in about six years when a child finds a book with their own name in it and works out it is about a Christmas they were present for and cannot recall. That is a good moment and it is worth setting up.
It also means the physical object matters more than usual. This book has to survive being stored eleven months a year, moved house once or twice, and then handled by a child. Hardcover is the version that gets there.
Ordering
All three come in hardcover and softcover, chosen on the product page. Books are printed to order in the United States with a two to four business day production window before shipping, and nothing is held in stock.
December is the one month where that window causes trouble, because everybody leaves it to the same fortnight. There is no advantage to waiting on this one — a first Christmas book ordered in October is not less accurate than one ordered in December.
Read the name back before you pay. It appears in your cart, at checkout and on your order confirmation. Personalized books cannot be returned once printed, but a wrong spelling reported quickly can usually be stopped before printing, and anything damaged or misprinted we replace free.
The rest of the seasonal shelf is in Christmas & Holiday Stories. For the versions addressed to the parents rather than the baby, see which first Christmas as Mom or Dad book; if the baby has not arrived yet, see choosing a new baby book before the birth.