Step Father Christmas
L.D. Lapinski
This was a really lovely book. I read it with my family. My siblings are 8, 10, 12 and I’m 14. I love the way the author has done it in 25 short chapters, but they are not too short to have as a bedtime story each night. I love the way the scenes were described as you could picture it in your head like you were in the story itself. 10-year-old Harper lives with her single mum and her older brother Will. All is happy and well, until Mum announces she is bringing her new boyfriend, Nick, home for the Christmas season. Nick is a bit weird. Harper, who is convinced her new step-dad is actually Father Christmas, tries to catch Nick out. In the end Harper and Will end up helping Nick and everyone works together to save the big day.
This book is a great advent read to have every night and is full of Christmas magic and showing that Christmas isn’t all about the presents, it’s about who you spend it with as well. It is a delightful, amusing story about accepting family changes and touches on sensitive topics for children in a sensitive and reassuring way Even though the chapters are fairly short the story is still quite fast past and causes a lot of suspense and makes you want to read on to the next chapter.
My family would give this book 5 stars and recommend it to anyone over the age of 7.
Review by Leah Capewell & family
Snow (only in your garden ), a reindeer stuck on the roof, bags of presents that are delivered to your home and on top of that Harper and Will’s mum has a new boyfriend who works on a llama farm and looks like Father Christmas! Is he??
Such is the idea behind this wonderful, warm and Christmassy story written in 25 short chapters. It’s an ideal advent read and perfect for reading aloud at the end of class. The plot is fast moving, the intrigue is gripping and of course there is a happy ending. This is a book sprinkled with Christmas magic – definitely destined to be a Christmas classic.
Published by Orion (Hachette 2023), 210 pages
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