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    Emily Brown and Father Christmas

    Cressida Cowell

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    Emily Brown and Stanley are back in this fun-filled Christmas picture book. By the author of the bestselling HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON series.

    It's Christmas Eve, and who's that outside the window? It's Father Christmas! In his shiny new turbo-charged sleigh, complete with sat-nav. But things aren't going quite to plan...

    Can Emily Brown and Stanley save the day? They'll just need some emergency reindeer, a star map and ... MAGIC!

    A charmingly funny adventure about cherishing traditions, this is classic Christmas storytelling at its best. *With a shiny gold cover!*

    Written by Cressida Cowell, the bestselling author of the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON series.

    Illustrated by Neal Layton, the artist behind STANLEY'S STICK and DANNY MCGEE DRINKS THE SEA, shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award.

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    Praise for Emily Brown and Father Christmas

    • A great story... from one of our best-loved author/illustrator combinations. - Angels & UrchinsShows the joys of children using their imaginations ... the illustrations work perfectly with the story. - BookbagLovely. - School LibrarianA visually sumptuous read, blending illustrations with graphics and photography for a textured feel. - Junior

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    Cressida Cowell

    Cressida Cowell

    Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the globally bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series. Her next series, The Wizards of Once, was an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. The Which Way series is her most recent and has already been translated into 15 languages.

    How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 42 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The Wizards of Once has been translated into 38 languages and also signed by DreamWorks.

    Cressida was the Waterstones Children's Laureate (2019-2022). She is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now' magazine's 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity.

    She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.

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