The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories
By (Author) Wendy Cooling
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Puffin
19th November 2019
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Short stories
Childrens / Teenage: Anthologies
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Celebrations, holidays, festivals and spec
823.0080334
Paperback
176
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 12mm
132g
Christmas is coming! A delightful collection of stories by some of the finest writers for children. The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories is essential Christmas-time reading including classic and contemporary stories, from traditional to real life, humour and most importantly, the magic of Christmas. Christmas is coming! A delightful collection of stories by some of the finest writers for children.Writers range from Charles Dickens to Gillian Cross, Trish Cooke, Malorie Blackman and Jacqueline Wilson.
Wendy Cooling (1941-2020) taught English in London secondary schools for many years before moving to BookTrust, a charity that supports reading to children and adults. There she founded Bookstart, their flagship national programme that gives books to babies and toddlers to encourage parents and carers to foster a lifelong a love of reading. Wendy edited many short story and poetry anthologies for children and travelled the world talking about children's books and the importance of reading. In 2006 she won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for her outstanding contribution to children's literature, and was honoured to receive an MBE from the Queen in 2009. Wendy died in June 2020, aged 78.