It's the night before Christmas and Big Mouse and Little Mouse are putting up decorations. Little Mouse scampers out to search for holly but finds big white flakes falling from the sky. "Goodness me!" he cries. "The sky is coming undone!" And as Little Mouse's world is covered in snow he discovers strange things all around him...

A board book edition of the hugely popular The Very Snowy Christmas by Diana Hendry (The Very Noisy Night) and illustrated by Jane Chapman (Bear Snores On and The Little White Owl). The chunky pages are easy for little fingers to turn and hard-wearing enough to be read again and again. A lovey wintry Christmas tale that would make a fantastic Christmas present or a lovely story to share in the build up to Christmas Day.

There are 20 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2013 by Little Tiger Press Group .

Karma Wilson's tale is accompanied by the most enchanting of illustrations by Jane Chapman. Diana Hendry is the Whitbread Award-winning author of Harvey Angell, and its sequels, of which Harvey Angell Beats Time won a Scottish Arts Council Award. She has also written picture books texts, teenage novels and award-winning poetry,