disclosure: we were sent the item mentioned in exchange for a review and giveaway post
I have a festive treat to share with you today on the first day of December. The Naughty List (Amazon Affiliate link) by Thomas Conway is published through Skylands Publishing House and has claimed the 2020 Indie Book Award in the E-Book Fiction category.
The Naughty List is aimed at children aged 8-12 years of age and is a perfect read in the run-up to Christmas. Can you imagine a world without Father Christmas, where he didn’t show up for Christmas?
The book has an underlying message throughout the story of good conquering evil and love over fear and starts with the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York. Hardly anyone seems to have noticed that Father Christmas didn’t attend the parade. The magic of Christmas seems to have disappeared and people are too busy with technology to think about the true meaning of the season. Hermey knows instantly that something must be wrong, he’d worked for Santa many years ago and knew that he’d never miss entertaining the children in the run-up to the festive season. He sets off to the North Pole with his grandson Tiberius to find out what’s going on.
Father Christmas has disappeared. He’d left from the North Pole to attend the parade and never arrived. Hermey and Tiberius are introduced to Scout, head of EIN – Elf Information Network, she informs them that it would appear that Hermey’s son, Rudi and his employers, Eastern Industries, have kidnapped Santa and that they want the world to believe that no one needed him any more. She also informs a non-believing Tiberius that he has been number one on The Naughty List for the past three years. The elves know everything, and far more about his misbehaviour, than his grandfather is aware of.
The elves decide that only the children on The Naughty List can rescue Santa and save Christmas, and so the adventure begins. Can the children show the world that they aren’t as naughty as they seem? Can the spirit of Christmas be reignited and can the truth of the aims of Eastern Industries be uncovered?
The Naughty List is a lovely read and one we’ve enjoyed.
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We always take a visit to our local garden centre to choose a new special decoration for our tree.
listening to christmas songs whilst decorating the christmas tree!
We always have a family day at the seaside on Christmas Eve. We then go home and the little one opens a Christmas Eve Box and we watch a festive film.
We always decorate the tree together with the kids and use all the handmade decorations they had made over the years.
We always have a baking weekend and a Christmas Eve day out – hopefully it will happen this year x
Normally we take our daughter to the theatre to see a panto or christmas show
new pjs xmas eve
Kids usually perform in panto and we all go to see them, we have new pjs on Christmas Eve and we do elf on the shelf
making the cake, making Christmas decorations and attending the Christingle service!
Always leave a glass of sherry and a mince pie out for Santa and a carrot for Rudolph of course x
We start our festivities with daddy always putting the angel on the top of the tree!!! That signals the start of christmas for us!!!
Tree decorations – quite a collection over the years
Lots of christmas movie nights!
Decorating the tree & reminiscing and carrot for Rudolph with a mince pie and glass of milk for Santa – it used to be a tot of alcohol until the kids decided that Santa shouldn’t be drink driving, He’s not best pleased!!
We always put the tree up as a family and on the 1st December start a big tin of chocolates
We have an advent calander that I made when we first moved in and, we put actvities in it for us to do each day throughout December, like baking cookies and going to look at other people’s lights etc. We also always put Christmas music on to put the decs up, then we put on a Christmas movie (normally Polar Express) and drink hot chocolate with the Christmas lights on and snuggled under the blankets.
Putting our stockings out on Christmas Eve.
We always go to the carol service at church on Christmas Eve
We’ve started out Advent Calendars and we countdown to Christmas every day, working out how many days left!
we add a dec to our tree each day unti christmas eve
we decorate on christmas eve and the decorations are taken down by 6th January
We watch the Snowman every christmas eve. We put the chocolates and nuts out and light candles, and of course food for Santa and the reindeer
We do advent calendars with toys and also open a present on Christmas Eve, we make a big deal about buying a real tree and decorating it!
We always do the tree together and it’s nearly time.
We rewatch classic comedies together in the run-up to Christmas 🙂
We love watching some of the old classics that come on
Hello, we like looking at all the pretty Christmas lights and decorations in our neighbourhood. Thank you for the chance to win.
A christmas movie night random selection. we put everything in a bag and pick a random film
My partner and I like to watch Christmas films.
Our favourite tradition is that every Sunday in December we have a Christmas movie afternoon and the children take it in turns to choose their favourite Christmas film & we have Christmas chocolates & treats too x
Homemade pizzas with lots of different topping combos and onion marmalade and mozzarella potato skins to help yourself to on Christmas eve and we watch Flint Street Nativity
we attend carols by candle light
We make marzipan fruit on Christmas Eve
Watching the muppets Christmas Carol!
Advent Calendar. Visit to Santa’s Grotto for the children. Go to Pantomime.
We usually go to London on the Saturday before Christmas day to see the lights and go to the theatre
We always put up our Christmas tree 12 days before Christmas Eve
my granddaughter has to put the star on our tree!
Christmas Carols Christmas Eve
We usually visit the local cinemas on Christmas eve to get us in the mood ……
We always go to a Christmas market
We all wear new p’j’s on Xmas Eve night and leave out a glass of brandy for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.
New pyjamas ready for Christmas
I have to make my own this year, i am still going to do KFC Christmas eve and have an afternoon watching christmas movies and wrapping presents
One of my favourite family traditions is a walk around our neighbourhood to see the decorations. Some of our neighbours really go to town!
We love to walk round and look at decorations – super exciting this year with my 2 year old who is shouting ‘tree’ at every single tree haha.
We always set up the Nativity display my Mum made many years ago before she passed away.
We have to have christmas tunes on whilst decorating the tree.
We dont put any of our xmas decs up until 13th December and we keep them up until 6 January (12 days before and 12 days after) other thn that we have a christmas eve routine where we all have new pjs and watch an xmas film together
Things change as the children get older but decorating the tree together remains.
We started wearing daft hats a few years ago, it’s getting very competitive
We sit down together on xmas eve to watch elf as a family, with lots of crisps and choccies
We have breakfast with Santa. A much loved treat the weekend before Christmas.
Just the usual. We tend to go with the flow and every year is slightly different 🙂
We always watch The Snowman together while eating mince pies.
We always go away on a little Christmas adventure, normally to London, to see the lights and go to Winter Wonderland. Obviously we haven’t been able to do that this year though.
Definitely picking out the Christmas tree
Always have Roast Gammon on Christmas Eve
We all hire log cabins for a pre christmas break as we all work over the holidays
putting up the tree xx
We always go for a family walk after we’ve had the main meal.
We always do lots of baking; making gingerbread men, mince pies, cookies and sausage rolls