In the run up to Christmas Tygertale has created an advent calendar, not of low grade pieces of greying chocloate, but of twenty four premium quality Christmas books for children
Pictured is our oh so tasteful advent calendar which has a new Eric Carle decoration to hang from the pop-up tree each day (though we do have a chocolate one too).
December 24th – Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs
December 23rd – Sledges for Ernest by Raymond Briggs
December 22nd – Grimble at Christmas by Clement Freud and Quentin Blake
December 21st – The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston
December 20th – Pippi Longstocking’s After Christmas Party by Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman
December 19th – Mog’s Christmas by Judith Kerr
December 18th – Appy Christmas with The Snowman, The Grinch and Charlie Brown
December 17th – Mrs Scrooge by Posy Simmonds and Carol Ann Duffy
December 16th – The Silver Christmas Tree by Pat Hutchins
December 15th – The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter
December 14th – Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R Tolkien
December 13th – Babar and Father Christmas by Jean de Brunhoff
December 12th – The Twelve Terrors of Christmas by Edward Gorey
December 11th – Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Present by John Burningham
December 10th – Another Night Before Christmas by Carol Ann Duffy and Marc Boutavant
December 9th – The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
December 8th – The Christmas Book by Raymond Briggs
December 7th – A Winter’s Tale by Simon Bartram and Marcus Sedgwick
December 6th – Cops and Robbers by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
December 5th – Christmas Eve at the Mellops by Tomi Ungerer
December 4th – The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis and Pauline Baynes
December 3rd – Merry Christmas Blue Kangaroo by Emma Chichester Clark
December 2nd – Lucy and Tom’s Christmas by Shirley Hughes
December 1st – Nutcracker by Maurice Sendak and E.T.A. Hoffman