- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Walker Books Ltd; Mini gift ed edition (1 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1406309788
- ISBN-13: 978-1406309782
- Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 14.6 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 422,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
After Holly meets Father Christmas in the big store, she decides to write him a letter. "Dear Father Christmas - is it snowing in Lapland? Please answer. Love Holly." And so begins the start of a touching penpal friendship with Father Christmas himself, in which Holly learns about the magic of elves, reindeer and life in Lapland, as well as receiving some very special Christmas surprises. This miniature gift book comes with real detachable letters and gifts, including a calendar, tree decoration, joke book and a shimmery lenticular surprise!
About the Author
Alan Durant is a prolific author of novels and picture books for children of all ages, including Dear Tooth Fairy, Dear Mermaid, Always and Forever illustrated by Debi Gliori, Burger Boy illustrated by Mei Matsuoka. He lives in Surrey. Vanessa Cabban studied illustration at Brighton University and the Royal College of Art. She has illustrated several picture books, including the bestselling Bringing Down the Moon by Jonathan Emmett (9780744589504) and Dear Tooth Fairy by Alan Durant. She lives in Northumberland.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is so sweet with a beautiful story about a little girl writing to santa and santa responding. Every page has a little envelope with a letter in it answering the questions the little girl asks. Its magical and so cute. The pictures are lovely with a jolly santa and there are additional bits on various pages such as a christmas tree decoration and list of the reindeer and their names. A great present for any child. I bought it for my 5 yr old niece and she loves it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is one of the Alan Durant 'letter' collection - books written about a young girl called Holly and her pen pal relationships with various hard to find friends ie the Tooth fairy, Mermaids and in this book, Father Christmas. There are little letters to pull out of every other page, often with little gifts too - there is a card Father Christmas cut out to hang on the tree and a miniture advent calendar. Not as good as Dear Mermaid, where I think the humour and gifts were better, but still a really good buy for the festive period, lovely to read as a bed time story on the nights bulidng up to Christmas.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I got this to read to my son who is almost 4 years old. He loved opening all the little envelopes to get the letters inside for me to read to him. it's a bit longer than the stories we usually read and found it hard keepin his attention towards the end but none the less a very good buy. I am goin to purchase another for my little niece now
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Brilliant
I think this book is fantastic. I bought it to help explain Christmas to my two year old son and he loves it. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Tothebeach
A christmas eve must
My girls were soooooo excited to get this book on christmas eve.Love the story and picture, We will be enjoying it again next christmas eve xx
Published 11 months ago by wadey
Full of surprises
Great book with lots of hidden letters for children to find! The letters have a lot of writting in the so will mostly need read to the child by an adult, but still all in all aa... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Ms. N. Wallace
A lovely book
I bought this for my 3 year old , she loves opening the envelopes to read the letters, I do shorten each page as it is quite long for a 3 year old, however this book will for be a... Read more
Published 16 months ago by R McLaughlin
Better than expected
Bought this on impulse from the Christmas bargain section for £2.99. Didn't pay full attention to the product information as was just looking for a nice Christmas book to share... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Marie83
christmas questions answered
What a wonderful find ,my grandchildren loved the book,they keep telling their friends about how they know how santa
is "so clever". Read more
is "so clever". Read more
Published 17 months ago by Karen B
Lovely Book to share.
Lovely book with lots of wonderful illustrations, added envelopes, letters and cards. My son is 4 so we have to read it together and we love it. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Funkiechick
MAGICAL BOOK FOR CHRISTMAS
My 4 year old son absolutely loves this book! He has been choosing it every night for his bedtime book and just loves opening the envelopes as part of the story. Read more
Published 17 months ago by C. Cammish
fabulous!
A beautiful book for Christmas time, great attention to detail with the little letters, advent calander and cards. Read more
Published 17 months ago by liz
Great story for a bit of magic at Christmas time!
My daughter is not yet three years old and she absolutely loves this book! Holly, the girl in the story, starts writing letters to Father Christmas from December 1st, after seeing... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mr T Niwa
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