This is one of the cutest books I have read. It complies letters that were written to Tolkien's kids from Father Christmas, his friend Polar Bear and an elf. They also have drawings that Father Christmas drew to the kids of all the exciting adventures that he has had throughout the year. I can see this becoming a yearly read this time of year.
This is such a cute short book. I really enjoy reading this around Christmas time. In this old England tale a widowed man who is enjoying the company of his niece and old friend around Christmas time. When the old friend proposes that in order to bring some fun into this lonely mans life that they may hire some children for Christmas to come and enjoy the holiday with them. The widowed man agrees only because his much beloved niece says it would make her so happy. But the widowed old man get more than just a joyous Christmas time out of the arrangement.
This book was just released October of this year and I really wanted to stretch it out as far as I could. I figured this was going to be easy since I had 4 different textbooks that I was going to be reading for my classes. I was doing really well till close to the end of the book. I stayed up till 2AM and "accidentally" finished the book. This has been such a fun series. I really enjoyed Fablehaven and this is 10x better. I dont know if its simply because of how much the characters have grown and evolved or because Brandon Mulls writing skills have grown and evolved or a mix of both. Course I have enjoyed most of the books I have read from him. He's a really great writer. I am having to impatiently wait for the next book to come out. Hopefully it will only be a year. I haven't felt like this from a series since Harry Potter. I'm sending Brandon Mull good vibes and energy to help him finish the next book. :p
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