Just one more week until Christmas!

What would Blyton’s characters get for Christmas?

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Inscriptions in books: books given with love

It is no good going down a factory chimney, because there are never any children below with stockings to be filled.

Wise words from One Christmas Eve – a short story where Father Christmas makes exactly that mistake thanks to some new reindeer and gets himself in rather a lot of bother.

Christmas Treats is another of those nice Hodder collections to have come out recently. This one has 29 Christmassy stories collected from various books.