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Father Christmas Needs a Wee
- Narrator
- Bernard Cribbins
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publish Date
- 30 May 2013
- Run Time
- 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In this audio edition of Father Christmas Needs A Wee, Bernard Cribbins brings to life the excruciating dilemma that Santa faces every Christmas Eve.
On Christmas Eve every child leaves out a drink and a snack for Father Christmas. Before long he really, really needs a wee but what can he do about it?
There's a long time to wait before he can get home and when he finally does he's lost his house key! A hilarious take on a dilemma that every toddler will identify with.
Critics Review
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A Christmas counting book that’s sure to be popular with younger children – watch them giggle with delight as Father Christmas helps himself to tasty treats as he delivers the presents, only to find that he really, really, really needs a wee…
The School Run blog
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Written in a jolly rhyming text that also encourages counting skills, this is an ingeniously original Santa Claus story packed with silly humour that will appeal to children
Junior
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This rhyming counting book will appeal to youngsters with a practical turn of mind or those who like toilet humour
Sunday Express
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There can be few more arresting titles on the market this year than Nicholas Allan's Father Christmas Needs A Wee . . . Perfect for all, pretty much from birth
Independent
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Big, bold pictures and wonderful facial expressions make this a must for Christmas and ever afterwards
Daily Mail
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Fabulously funny
Malvern Gazette
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Big, bold pictures and wonderful facial expressions make this a must for Christmas and ever afterwards
Daily Mail
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This is truly brilliant
Cork Evening Echo (Eire)
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Details
- Author
- Nicholas Allan, illustrated by Nicholas Allan
- Narrator
- Bernard Cribbins
- Duration
- 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 May 2013
- ISBN
- 9781448192861
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, Early years: numbers and counting, Children’s picture books
Synopsis
In this audio edition of Father Christmas Needs A Wee, Bernard Cribbins brings to life the excruciating dilemma that Santa faces every Christmas Eve.On Christmas Eve every child leaves out a drink and a snack for Father Christmas. Before long he really, really needs a wee but what can he do about it? There's a long time to wait before he can get home and when he finally does he's lost his house key! A hilarious take on a dilemma that every toddler will identify with.
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