Emily Brown and Father Christmas

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Emily Brown and Father Christmas

Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton

(Hodder Children’s Books)

‘Emily Brown and Father Christmas’ first meet  on Christmas Eve after Emily Brown and Stanley have hung up their stockings and are reading each other a story. There’s a ‘Ho-Ho-Help! from outside the window’ Emily Brown employs her ’emergency rescue machine’ to suck Father Christmas in through the window. Thereafter she suggests that he sticks to the ‘old ways’ rather than employing ‘the very latest climbing equipment in his work. Will Father Christmas listen to Emily Brown’s good advice?

It seems not, for Father Christmas is in need of Emily Brown and Stanley’s attentions later that night, when his ‘most up-to-date sleigh you can get‘ breaks down. After that, Father Christmas’s ‘iPhones and why-phones and flashing screens’ disable his navigation systems. Will Father Chrismtmas ‘deliver all these presents to every child in the whole entire world’? What a dilemma! Who might possibly help?

If anyone can help, it’s Emily Brown (and Stanley). Rather like Sophie Johnson Unicorn Expert, our heroine always has exactly the right answer! Even for Father Christmas! Neal Layton’s warm, expressive, bright pictures heighten this delightful story. Welcome to Bookwagon ‘Emily Brown and Father Christmas’ (and Stanley!)