I’m going to jump right in and say that this is one of the greatest Christmas picture books of all time: Rosemary Wells is up there with Judith Kerr, Raymond Briggs and Shirley Hughes. Morris’s Disappearing Bag is a funny exploration of family dynamics, using Christmas as an elegant structural device. The story begins on … Continue reading
I heard about this unusual book recently on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief programme where the author Frank Cottrell-Boyce chose it as his favourite children’s book with a religious message, describing it as ‘an advent calendar within a book’. Its unique structure takes us day by day through December as a young Norwegian boy opens … Continue reading
