Every family should have this book!

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	• Father Christmas Raymond Briggs Viking Penguin Inc, 1920 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 34 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent

This is a great sequel to the "Snowman". It is a delight & a treat for all ages.

Every family should have this book!

We buy multiple copies and hand them out for Christmas presents to new parents.

The thing is, it is really funny for parents! It kind of has double meaning.

Okay, I confess, this book is a Christmas book for ME!

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Please reprint this book!

I was delighted to find a used copy of this out-of-print book via Amazon. _Father Christmas_ is a classic that truly deserves to be reprinted. The story, told in comic-book style, tells of Father Christmas' present-delivering routine. Apparently, Father Christmas lives perpetually in Britain in the 1940s. He wakes up to the alarm, feeds the animals, gets his own breakfast, uses the toilet (in a discreet and tiny but hilarious drawing that my kids absolutely LOVED), and heads out, mildly grumbling, in terrible weather to deliver presents to children in all sorts of homes, including a lighthouse and even Buckingham Palace. Once the presents are delivered, he returns to a nice meal, presents, and a "grown-up drink" in front of the fire.

In our family, we read one Christmas book a night during advent--I wrap the books like gifts in advance and the kids choose one each night to unwrap and read. In the past I've checked this book out from the library for our celebration, but now we have our very own copy to enjoy.

NB: We have the dvd of a sequel, "Father Christmas on Vacation," and our family did not like that--but we loved the original Father Christmas book.

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Father Christmas awoke from his dream of summer in the sun, and there it was on the calendar, December 24th, Christmas Eve - the start of his longest night's work of the year! This book was awarded The Library Association's Kate Greenaway Medal.

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