Christmas is coming, and gifts are on our mind. But what’s the best present for every good Puffin? A book! If you’re making a list, we suggest adding these rollicking reads to the top. We guarantee our selection of hilarious books will have you LOL’ing right through Christmas and into the new year.
Snuggle up in your new seasonal sweater and enjoy audiobook extracts from Peter Rabbit’s Christmas Tale (read by Emma Thompson), Richard Curtis’s The Empty Stocking (read by Dawn French) and The Snowman and the Snowdog (read by Benedict Cumberbatch). As well as all this, Pupil of Dangerology, David O’Doherty will be taking you through the 12 Dangers of Christmas and William the Turkey is giving us an exclusive interview. Not to mention the quiz and of course host Ally McCrae, who’ll be saying a final hello, goodbye and thanks for listening in 2014.
It was at the chimes of midnight that The Snowman and The Snowdog came to life… and the adventure began.
The Making of The Snowman and the Snowdog
Win The Snowman and the Snowdog’s Christmas Eve box over @puffinbooks Twitter!
What are your Christmas traditions? From mini-mince pie making with your mum to teetering on a chair to pop an ancient Barbie doll on the Christmas tree, we’ve heard quite a few and across the world wide web a new tradition is emerging . . . . Christmas Eve Boxes! They’re filled with cosy bed socks, carrots for Rudolf and a bedtime story to read before Santa arrives. Hearing the word carrot the Very Hungry Caterpillar just waggled an excited antenna. He’s counting down to Christmas too. What do you think he’ll be eating on Christmas day? One figgy pudding, two mince pies and three Brussels Sprouts of course . . .
To win the Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Christmas Eve box, which includes room stickers, a Pop-Up-Pull -Out book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Christmas 123, and the original story, jingle your way over to @puffinbooks twitter to enter.
What Christmas traditions do you have in your house? Write them in the comments!
A big thank you and Merry Christmas to our friends at FunToSee for the Very Hungry Caterpillar room decorations and Rainbow Designs for the super soft and fury toy caterpillar.
‘Twas The Night Before Christmas / When all through the house / Not a creature was stirring / Except for Jamie Oliver, Emma Thompson, and a star-studded cast of Penguin authors.
No mice, though.
Watch a special reading of the classic Christmas poem ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’, from some very familiar faces.
Featuring Penguins: Emma Thompson, Jamie Oliver, Cerys Matthews, Colm Toibin, Clare Balding, Charlie Higson, Conn Iggulden, Malcolm Gladwell, Jennifer Saunders, Graham Nash, Meg Rosoff and Richard Curtis.
A very Merry Christmas from all of us at Penguin and Puffin!
Have you
noticed the Puffin tweeting away? In the countdown to Christmas we’re giving
you a chance to WIN one of the books
on our Christmas list!
Nicola , Quizmas
Master in Chief, sets the clues around 10am and then you have until just 5pm to
tweet us the title and the author. Some are
easy-peasy, others are real whopsy-whifflers. Everyday one correct answer is
selected at random and its tweeter is posted a special-book-shaped prize!
If you’d
like to enter then pop over to @PuffinBooks
now for today’s clue and your chance to win.
Here are
some of our previous Q&As – why not
test your family on Christmas day? Or we’d love to hear some of your ideas for
questions. Good luck and a very merry quizmas!
(p.s check out the gingerbread Rudolf from culinary genius Fi!)
1. Dear Santa, the 1st book on my
Christmas list is the story of 1 demi-god hero
2. Dear
Santa, the 2nd book on my Christmas list is the story of 2 most revolting people
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