This book presents a selection of stories for the festive season that children will want to read again and again. It contains a selection of both classic and original stories perfect for Christmas: "The Elf and the Toymaker", "The Chilly Little Penguin", "Puss in Boots", "A Christmas Carol", "Snowy and Icy", "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "The Snow Queen", "Christmas Time" and "East of the Sun, West of the Moon". In it, each story is brilliantly illustrated by the artists of the best-selling Usborne Reading Programme.

 

This book is part of a book series called Illustrated Stories .

There are 352 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Joy Cowley is one of the world's most loved writers and has written many books for both adults and children, including over 400 books specifically for early readers. Philip Webb is a children's book illustrator. He has won many awards and illustrated a great number of well-known children's books, including Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig. Alan Marks is widely published and has illustrated many books. He is also a 'Smarties Prize' prize winner. Petra Brown lives at the foot of Mount Snowdon near the little Ffestiniog railway, in the beautiful country of North Wales, United Kingdom. When she was a child, she used to love to look through books and draw the pictures herself. Now she finds that illustrating children's books is immensely satisfying. You can visit her at PetraB. co. uk. Anne Cassidy is an established author of both teenage fiction and, more recently, fiction for this younger age range. She lives in Essex. Desideria Guicciardini has been illustrating for 20 years and loves illustrating for young children. She lives in Milan, Italy with her husband and two children.