SuitabookOld Father Christmas
Berlie Doherty, Maria Teresa Meloni
- Reading
- Enjoy the pictures together and invite your child to notice how the children’s hopes compare with the Christmas tree and presents at home. Let them decide what feels most surprising or special.
- Themes
- From picture-book image to Christmas wonder: The children meet a man who resembles the Father Christmas in their picture book, then hope for a tree like the one they have seen there. The story connects an image the children know from a book with a festive encounter and its imagined possibilities.
- A remembered Christmas: Godfather Garbel tells how, when he was eight, he and his younger sister met the man they took to be Father Christmas and had a memorable Christmas. The tale is framed as a recollection shared by an older narrator.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes a walk through snowy countryside on Christmas Eve and a man who resembles Father Christmas.