Santa's Greatest Stories; Anne Johnstone Selects the Best Christmas Books for Children of All Ages That Will Last Well Beyond Boxing Day
The Herald › December 11, 2004
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As Christmas gifts, children's books enjoy a rare longevity in this ephemeral world. Long after those infuriating battery-operated toys have thankfully ground to a halt, a well told and beautifully- illustrated story has the power to go on forever. In many homes, favourite Christmas stories are ritually brought out, year after year in a bid to rekindle the spirit of Christmases past. Long after the owner appears to have put away childish things, they find the need to reacquaint themselves with Rudolph, or the Snowman, or that battered version of the Nativity, come Christmas Eve. This year a duck, a dinosaur, bears - both brown and teddy - a cat, a kangaroo, a baby gruffalo and a real penguin from the Antarctic have been chosen by The Herald to thrill the small people in your life.
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Santa's Greatest Stories; Anne Johnstone Selects the Best Christmas Books for Children of All Ages That Will Last Well Beyond Boxing Day
by Jez Alborough (Collins (pounds) 9.99) Age 1+ Hapless duck searches for the key to his truck but the cheeky frog is always one step ahead. Small children will enjoy the running joke and the hilarious final twist in this sturdy lift-the-flap book.
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