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Dec 19th: Maudie Smith chooses Father Christmas
Author / Illustrator: Raymond Briggs
Dec 17th: Laura Watkinson chooses The Jolly Christmas Postman
Author: Allan Ahlberg / Illustrator: Janet Ahlberg The Story: The Jolly Christmas Postman is a classic festive story about a jolly postman delivering letters to all kinds of familiar fairytale characters.
Dec 14th: Chitra Soundar chooses What’s Cooking, Jamela?
The Story: In What’s Cooking, Jamela? Mama plans a chicken dinner for Christmas Day, and she gives Jamela the job of fattening up their chicken.
Dec 12th: Duncan Beedie chooses How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
Author / Illustrator: Theodor Seuss Geisel
Dec 9th: Giles Paley-Phillips chooses The Jolly Christmas Postman
Author: Allan Ahlberg / Illustrator: Janet Ahlberg The Story: The Jolly Christmas Postman is delivering lots of gifts to a whole range of well known fairytale characters.
Dec 8th: Claire Zinkin (aka MinervaMoan) chooses The Snowman
The Story: A young boy builds a snowman in the garden. In the middle of the night he wakes, and sees that the snowman has come alive.
Dec 7th: Emma Graham chooses Father Christmas
Author / Illustrator: Raymond Briggs The Story: Picture based book telling the story of Father Christmas’ Christmas Eve.
Dec 2nd: Alice Hemming chooses Mog’s Christmas
The Story: Mog’s Christmas is Christmas as experienced by Judith Kerr’s wonderful Mog the Cat.
Dec 1st: Library Girl (aka Jo Cummins) chooses The Mouse That Cancelled Christmas
The Story: Following a traumatic incident involving a bauble when he was a baby, Mouse now only sees the danger lurking in Christmas.
Last Stop On The Reindeer Express by Maudie Powell-Tuck & Karl James Mountford
I first saw Last Stop On The Reindeer Express at the Frankfurt Book Fair last year and loved Karl James Mountford’s beautiful illustrations with their cutouts and flaps. This wonderful, festive, magical adventure is full of love and warmth and helps children understand that sometimes families may have to spend the Christmas season apart.
