'Twas the Nightcap Before Christmas
By (Author) Katie Blackburn
Illustrated by Sholto Walker
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
25th October 2017
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
828.9207
Hardback
32
Width 215mm, Height 195mm, Spine 9mm
260g
It is Christmas Eve and as usual mum and dad are knee-deep in presents that need to be wrapped. Dad suggests a sherry 'to keep us both going.' Then out comes the Baileys. And mum hits the rum. Hours of merriment and a stocking-clad tango later, they drift off to sleep - the living room in disarray, the presents unwrapped and their careful Christmas preparations in ruins. But come morning it seems a mysterious visitor has saved the day.
Katie Blackburn lives in London with her husband and young child. She is the author of Where the Wild Mums Are, Where the Wild Dads Went and Dozy Bear and the Secret of Sleep.
Sholto Walker trained and graduated as a painter in 1988 and since 1995 he has worked professionally as a full-time artist and illustrator.