Published November 1st 2014
NZ Writers and Illustrator Peter Friend, Eileen Mueller and A.J. Ponder editors,
illustrated by Geoff Popham
The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales Phantom Feather Press, 2014 $22.00pb
222pp
ISBN 978 0 9941 1550 8
ISBN 978 0 9941 1550 8
Themes: Christmas stories/ Short stories
Thirty-one short stories with Christmas in mind make up this
new book, of which 10% of profits go to support the Muscular Dystrophy Association of
New Zealand. Some of them would be excellent to read to a group in that
over-excited time as school winds down for another year and they are all short
enough to read in ten to fifteen minutes. Whatever you do don’t miss Joy
Cowley’s special take on the traditional Christmas Story in Kiwi Christmas which has already been
published as a picture book by Pleroma Press, Otane with illustrations by Bruce
Potter.
The book will be launched officially at the Children’s
Bookshop, Kilbirnie Wellington on Thursday November 13th at 6pm – an
open invitation. As you pick the
book up you are aware at once of the fairy lights twinkling and the Christmas
bells tinkling and the scene is set as you plunge into David Hill’s forward in which he tells us a
quite dreadful story about how the
Christmas Dinner Table caught fire because someone pulled one small cracker.
Year 3 up/
Age 7 up
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