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How Winston Came Home for Christmas
A Christmas Story in Twenty-Four-and-a-Half Chapters
Series: How Winston Delivered Christmas
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This beautifully illustrated and activity-rich festive tale is perfect for children and their families, ideal for sharing each day throughout December in the run-up to Christmas. It is especially suited for readers who enjoy heartfelt stories filled with kindness, adventure, and holiday traditions.
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See moreJoin Winston the mouse on his second adventure in this heartwarming tale of bravery, kindness and unlikely friendships. This gorgeous book is the perfect Christmas present for any child, to read aloud and share with all the family time and time again.
Join Winston the mouse on his second adventure in this heartwarming tale of bravery, kindness and unlikely friendships.
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Join Winston the mouse as he sets out on another irresistible Christmas adventure!
From Alex T. Smith, bestselling author of the Claude series, comes How Winston Came Home for Christmas β the festive sequel to the much-loved How Winston Delivered Christmas. Full of gorgeous colour artwork and Christmassy activities for all the family to enjoy, this second Winston adventure is sure to become a Christmas classic to be enjoyed year after year.
It is five days until Christmas and Winston has a Very Curious Mystery to solve. He has hazy rememberings of another mouse, and he just knows that someone very important to him is lost. After promising Oliver that he will be back in time for Christmas, no matter what, Winston sets out on an exciting round-the-world festive adventure to find the missing mouse, helped along the way by wonderful old friends and delightful new ones, too.
A Christmas mystery written in 24-and-a-half-chapters, one to enjoy every day of December in the lead up to Christmas, each chapter includes its very own festive activity for all the family to enjoy together β including making decorations, Christmas food, discovering Christmas traditions from around the world and so much more!
This gorgeous festive hardback has a festively foiled cover, a ribbon and artwork on beautiful paper, making it the perfect Christmas gift.
Series: How Winston Delivered Christmas
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How Winston Delivered Christmas
Join a brave little mouse on a big Christmas adventure! This is the chapter book edition of Alex T. Smith's modern Christmas classic How Winston Delivered Christmas, with gorgeous black and white illustrations from the author throughout - the perfect festive gift for newly confident readers. Winston is on a Very Important Mission. On Christmas Eve, he finds a letter...Paperback$1800Elsewhere:$2300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
How Winston Came Home for Christmas
Join Winston the mouse as he sets out on another irresistible Christmas adventure! From Alex T. Smith, bestselling author of the Claude series, comes How Winston Came Home for Christmas β the festive sequel to the much-loved How Winston Delivered Christmas. Full of gorgeous colour artwork and Christmassy activities for all the family to enjoy, this second Winston adventure is...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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The Sunday Times praised it as a spectacular advent calendar-style volume with daily festive activities. Fiona Noble from The Bookseller described it as 'utterly gorgeous.' Reviews also highlight the book's gorgeous illustrations, heartwarming storyline, and the inclusion of creative Christmas crafts and traditions that make it a potential classic family Christmas favourite.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529041576
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 October 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Alex T. Smith
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 213.0mm
Height: 263.0mm
Weight: 911g
Pages: 176
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Series: How Winston Delivered Christmas
About the Author
AAlex T. Smith has drawn and written stories since he could hold a pencil. Alex graduated with a first-class degree in Illustration in 2006 and also won second place in the Macmillan Prize for Illustration in his final year. Since then Alex has gone on to work for a wide variety of clients, not just in the publishing industry, as well as writing and illustrating his own picture books, many of which have won prizes and have been read on TV during the Bedtime Hour on the CBeebies channel. Alex is also the creator of the bestselling Claude series for early readers, which are soon to appear in their own TV series on Disney Junior.
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