Text: Birdie Black
Illustrations: Rosalind Beardshow
Year: 2011
Publisher: Nosy Crow, London
Age: 3 – 7 years
No. of Pages: 30
Book Type: Picture book, Paperback
ISBN: 978 0 85763 136 7
This is a cheery Christmas story of love and sacrifice. Christmas is also one of those times when miracles of kindness and friendship are born. And this book is about just that – an act of love sets off a chain reaction of selflessness and sharing.
On Christmas Eve, the king spots a roll of beautiful red cloth to make a cloak for his daughter. The maids leave the scraps outside which Jenny, the kitchen maid sews into a smart jacket for her mother.
Bertie Badger finds her scraps and makes a hat for his father and leaves the cloth scraps outside his house. Samuel Squirrel finds them and makes a pair of gloves for his wife. His scraps are picked up by Milly Mouse who turns it into a scarf for her son Billy.
Everyone’s present feels just right…
We loved this book for its simple message of giving and sharing at Christmas time.
Excerpt
She snipped and she sewed and she snipped and she sewed and, by the time the candle had burnt down low, she’d made a cosy scarf for Billy.
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