Item category 1: Christmas

It's Christmas Eve and Winnie and Wilbur are super excited. They've posted their letters to the North Pole and made everything festive. But then disaster strikes. Santa gets stuck in their chimney! He desperately needs help with his deliveries otherwise Christmas just won't happen.

It's Christmas Eve and Winnie and Wilbur are super excited. They've posted their letters to the North Pole and made everything festive. But then disaster strikes. Santa gets stuck in their chimney! He desperately needs help with his deliveries otherwise Christmas just won't happen.

William lives in Words of Wonder, a perfect book shop full of stories and delights. He has always lived there with his family, ever since he was a baby, and now he is 37 books tall. But times are hard, and the book shop is struggling, so William takes it upon himself to create the most beautiful ...

Juliet loves her family very much. She would do anything for them and she knows her husband, Rick, feels the same - which is a good thing because they ask a lot! With Christmas fast approaching, Juliet knows that she and Rick need to pull out all the stops to turn the chaos into calm otherwise it...

Snow days are for sledging, skating and snowball battles, and no-one is safe from Nixie's expertly aimed snowballs or her mischievous wonky wand. But one fairy is missing out on all of the fun. Where is Fidget the butterfly fairy? It's up to Nixie to find her, and prove that she's not such a bad,...

Christmas Eve, 1909. When eleven-year-old Lily Larkin is left to fend for herself in an East London workhouse after her dying mother is taken to an infirmary, her future looks bleak. Once she is separated from her twin brother, Davy, her childhood hopes seem to shatter. But Lily's fierce spirit -...

You can't let an elephant pull Santa's sleigh, if you want your presents on Christmas Day. He'll do his best to tug it up to the sky but the sad fact is - elephants can't fly! Raccoons decorating your Christmas tree? Pulling crackers with alpacas? Kissing a buffalo under the mistletoe? Oh no - th...

Christmas has always been a time for telling stories, and this collection draws on that tradition to create a mixture of stories for the festive season. It brings together stories about all the different faces of Christmas and what it means to us.