Description"If somewhere in the afterlife Roald Dahl met Charles Dickens and they cooked up a new Christmas tale, it couldn\'t have much on this fleet, verbally rambunctious, heart-stealing follow-up to A Boy Called Christmas." --The New York Times Amelia Wishart was the first child ever to receive a Christmas present.
His most recent book, the bestselling A Boy Called Christmas, was praised by Stephen Fry as "the most evergreen, immortal Christmas story to be published for decades." He lives in Brighton, on the south coast of England, with his wife and two chil.
His children\'s books have won the Nestl Smarties Book Prize, the Alex Award, and the Blue Peter Book Award, and been nominated several times for the Carnegie Medal and the Waterstones Children\'s Book Prize. "Matt Haig has an empathy for the human condition, the light and the dark of it, and he uses the full palette to build his excellent stories." --Neil Gaiman, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Graveyard Book "With a little bit of naughty and a lot of nice, this Christmastime yarn is a veritable sugarplum." --Kirkus Reviews About the author Matt Haig is an internationally bestselling author whose novels for children and adults have been translated into twenty-six languages. . . .
But first Amelia must learn to believe again.
With the help of his trusty reindeer, a curious cat, and Charles Dickens, he sets out to find Amelia, the only Girl who might be able to save Christmas.
Meanwhile, up at the North Pole, magic levels dip dangerously low as Christmas approaches, and Santa knows that something is gravely wrong.
It\'s not long before her hope begins to drain away.
For a whole year, Amelia scrubs the floors and eats watery gruel, without a whiff of kindness to keep her going.
Creeper.
When her mother falls ill, she is sent to the workhouse to toil under cruel Mr.
But now Amelia is in trouble.
It was her Christmas spirit that gave Santa the extra boost of magic he needed to make his first trip around the world.
Description"If somewhere in the afterlife Roald Dahl met Charles Dickens and they cooked up a new Christmas tale, it couldn\'t have much on this fleet, verbally rambunctious, heart-stealing follow-up to A Boy Called Christmas." --The New York Times Amelia Wishart was the first child ever to receive a Christmas present
