Christmas
Dec 5th: Melanie McGilloway chooses Olivia Helps With Christmas
The Story: Olivia Helps With Christmas starts on Christmas Eve. Olivia is helping her mum with preparations for the big day, with hilarious consequences, while impatiently waiting for Father Christmas. Why is Olivia Helps With Christmas your favourite Christmas book? We have always loved Olivia’s enthusiastic yet accident-prone approach to life in general but her…
Dec 4th: David Cadji-Newby chooses Father Christmas Needs A Wee
The Story: In Father Christmas Needs a Wee Father Christmas is busily flying around the world, delivering gifts. At every stop off, he’s given some form of liquid (non-alcoholic) refreshment – with the inevitable consequence that, fairly soon, he’s desperate to use the loo. We’ve all been there.
Dec 3rd: Abie Longstaff chooses How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
The Story: Unlike the rest of the town, the mean old Grinch doesn’t like Christmas. He thinks it’s just about giving presents and eating feasts. So he sets about stealing all the gifts and food…but he soon realises that, for the Whos in Whoville, Christmas is really about sharing and friendship and love.
Dec 2nd: Sarah Yewman chooses Olive, the Other Reindeer
The Story: Meet Santa’s newest helper, Olive. Olive is a dog getting ready for Christmas when she hears “Olive the other Reindeer. I thought I was a dog. Hmmm, I must be a Reindeer!” She jumps on the polar express and heads to the North Pole. While Santa and the other reindeer are a bit…
Story Snug’s Advent Calendar 2015
I would like to say a huge, huge thank you to all the authors, illustrators and book bloggers who have helped me to put Story Snug’s Advent Calendar together this year. Our countdown to Christmas starts tomorrow and every day a surprise guest will tell us about the picture book that they most enjoy reading at Christmas.
Book Tree Advent Calendar
A few months ago our daughter discovered that our two little men, Christmas and Snowy, had help with the book Advent Calendars that Story Snug has done for the previous two years so now it’s time for something different – a book tree Advent Calendar.
The Little Christmas Tree by Rachel Elliot, Vicki Gausden & Corina Fletcher
“Wow! This is cool!” were my daughter’s first words when we read The Little Christmas Tree. It’s much more than just a book, after you have read the story you can decorate the tree with stickers and make your own Christmas scene using characters from the story.
Is It Christmas Yet? by Jane Chapman
Parents and children will identify with Ted’s excitement and his constant question ‘Is it Christmas yet?’ This beautifully illustrated story perfectly captures the excitement and anticipation of the festive season for small children and the preparations that are involved.
‘We’re Going On A Book Hunt!’ – Book Quiz
A book quiz is a fun way for a child to think about the books that they have read and also for them to discover new books, especially in their local library or in the school classroom. They are also a great activity for a rainy day in the school holidays or a classroom time filler. I love creating book quizzes,…
Snowy and Christmas’ Advent Calendar December 17th to 24th
We had lots more fun with our book Advent Calendar last week, it’s now only a week until Christmas Eve! Last week we had ice skating, clock watching, hide and seek, cycling and a very messy baking session. Snowy even jumped to the moon! We’re looking forward to seeing what surprises Snowy and Christmas bring from December 17th…
