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How Winston Came Home for Christmas
- Narrator
- Mathew Baynton
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 28 October 2021
- Run Time
- 2 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Children’s interactive and activity books and kits, Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories: Cultural heritage / traditional stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Handicrafts
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What to expect
Join Winston the mouse as he sets out on another irresistible Christmas adventure!
From Alex T. Smith, bestselling author of the Claude series, comes How Winston Came Home for Christmas – the festive sequel to the much-loved How Winston Delivered Christmas. Full of gorgeous colour artwork and Christmassy activities for all the family to enjoy, this second Winston adventure is sure to become a Christmas classic to be enjoyed year after year.
It is five days until Christmas and Winston has a Very Curious Mystery to solve. He has hazy rememberings of another mouse, and he just knows that someone very important to him is lost. After promising Oliver that he will be back in time for Christmas, no matter what, Winston sets out on an exciting round-the-world adventure to find the missing mouse, helped along the way by wonderful old friends and delightful new ones, too.
A Christmas mystery written in 24-and-a-half-chapters, one to read every day of December in the lead up to Christmas, each chapter includes it's very own festive activity for all the family to enjoy together – including crafting decorations, making Christmas food, discovering Christmas traditions from around the world and so much more!
Critics Review
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This spectacular volume works like an advent calendar, with 24 and a half chapters and an activity (a present, decoration, treat or act of kindness to craft or cook or practise) for every (or any) day from December 1 to Christmas.
The Sunday Times, best children's books of 2021
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Utterly gorgeous stuff.
The Bookseller on How Winston Delivered Christmas
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Gorgeously illustrated, this is a poignant and heart-warming story.
Waterstones.com on How Winston Delivered Christmas
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Beautifully illustrated, a fantastic idea, a heartwarming story and a book that is destined to become a Christmas classic.
Carousel on How Winston Delivered Christmas
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Alex T. Smith's resplendently published Advent adventure . . . interwoven with creative activities is the sweet story of an intrepid and compassionate mouse delivering a letter to Santa. Illustrated with humour and elegance, this promotes kind, artistic Christmases.
Sunday Times on How Winston Delivered Christmas
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This is the most sumptuous book . . . a perfect Christmas book, lovingly produced with a green bookmark ribbon, a fabric spine, and beautiful colour illustrations, through which the warmth of happiness radiates . . . Magical and heartwarming.
minvervareads.com on How Winston Delivered Christmas
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This spectacular volume works like an advent calendar... the exquisite illustrations are a tour de force.
The Sunday Times
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Make a new festive family tradition this year and read a chapter a night of Alex T Smith's absolutely adorable Advent book and enjoy the gorgeous artwork and Christmassy activities.
Independent.ie
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Make a new festive family tradition this year and from December 1 read a chapter a night of Alex T. Smith's absolutely adorable Advent book How Winston Delivered Christmas, and enjoy the gorgeous artwork and Christmassy activities.
The Independent.ie
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Details
- Author
- Illustrated by Alex T Smith
- Narrator
- Mathew Baynton
- Duration
- 2 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 October 2021
- ISBN
- 9781529041606
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Children’s interactive and activity books and kits, Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories: Cultural heritage / traditional stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Handicrafts
Synopsis
Join Winston the mouse as he sets out on another irresistible Christmas adventure!From Alex T. Smith, bestselling author of the Claude series, comes How Winston Came Home for Christmas – the festive sequel to the much-loved How Winston Delivered Christmas. Full of gorgeous colour artwork and Christmassy activities for all the family to enjoy, this second Winston adventure is sure to become a Christmas classic to be enjoyed year after year.It is five days until Christmas and Winston has a Very Curious Mystery to solve. He has hazy rememberings of another mouse, and he just knows that someone very important to him is lost. After promising Oliver that he will be back in time for Christmas, no matter what, Winston sets out on an exciting round-the-world adventure to find the missing mouse, helped along the way by wonderful old friends and delightful new ones, too.A Christmas mystery written in 24-and-a-half-chapters, one to read every day of December in the lead up to Christmas, each chapter includes it's very own festive activity for all the family to enjoy together – including crafting decorations, making Christmas food, discovering Christmas traditions from around the world and so much more!
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