A cracking Christmas presentation box comprising a seasonal storybook and snow globe gift. This fully-illustrated seasonal storybook plus snow globe looks like a real labour of love, with no corners cut on the smart gift box packaging that comes replete with golden cloth lining. The story tells how Mrs Claus allocates a personal elf to each child, and it falls to the elf to watch over the child to determine whether they’ve been naughty or nice so Mrs Claus and Santa can “decide what gifts you will receive from your list”. The tale is told from the point of view of Gabriel, an almost-ten-year-old, who’s lost all sense of the magic of Christmas now his dad has a new family who have “everything I could ever want”, while he and his mum will be stuck making their own Christmas decorations and eating chicken. Monumentally disgruntled, Gabriel disobeys his mum and flees to find his dad’s new town. Then, in a strange and initially terrifying turn of events, he encounters one of Santa’s reindeers and – wait for it – his very own elf! The elf certainly has his work cut out persuading Gabriel that Santa is real, but with the help of a magical snow globe and through showing Gabriel the true spirit of Christmas much like the ghosts in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, he manages to do just that. With its mix of real-life worries and seasonal magic, this captures the feeling of being on the brink of not believing in Father Christmas and is underpinned by the message that love is the best gift of all.
Joanne Owen, A LoveReading Ambassador
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A beautiful gift-box and an equally beautiful story about the meaning of Christmas!
This is a beautiful gift package, the perfect book for a classroom, or for at home in the build-up to Christmas. Created to a high standard, the Gift Box is sturdy and protects a beautifully illustrated book and a delightful snow globe.
The story itself is inventive, the introduction of a new reindeer and the ingenious concept of an elf for every child born and banishment to the South Pole is very funny. The story focuses on 10-year-old Gabriel, and although makes reference to presents also makes sure to emphasise the message that Christmas is about more than what's under to tree on December 25th, which I liked. The three visits echo A Christmas Carol but in a way that is subtle and entirely relevant to today.... Read Full Review
