Alarmingly close to Christmas, Santa’s reindeer get dispersed all around the world and so begins a hectic and hilarious mission to restore the pack in time for the all-important festive night in this side-splitting adventure from the author of The Fart that Changed the World.
A high-energy, brilliantly silly, fully illustrated festive adventure story by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist Anita Mangan. One of Santa's reindeers, Dave, is FED UP.
He's seething about having to spend Christmas stuck behind Rudolph, who is forever droning on about his role as the Star of the Show. Most of Santa's OG Reindeer Crew (Blitzen, Prancer et al) have retired or been fired in disgrace, leaving some rookie reindeers to take the sleigh reins.
This Christmas Eve, Dave is behind Rudolph in the procession flying ahead of Santa's sleigh, and is the recipient of a fart-in-the-face that is the last straw.
He unclips Rudolph's harness, and Rudolph blithely flies off, monologuing away to himself. Santa makes an emergency landing on the roof of 9 year old Holly's family, where her dad is wobbling about on the roof trying to switch on the exterior Christmas lights. The lights explode and blast the reindeers to far-flung corners of the Earth.
Holly must fly Dave around the globe rescuing the reindeer from various outlandish situations - one is on a beach in Tahiti and has no intention of putting down his cocktail and working flat-out all Christmas eve, thank-you-very-much, one is perched precariously on top of the Empire State Building, one has landed slap bang in the middle of the icy Arctic, perilously close to a very hungry polar bear.
Rudolph has made it to Las Vegas and has a sell-out one-reindeer show to put on. Can Holly and Dave work together to return the reindeers to Santa and save christmas?
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780702330827
Number of pages: 324
Weight: 340 g
Dimensions: 134 x 198 x 30 mm
There seems to be an unwritten law that children’s Christmas books must contain a certain amount of humour. Whether it be wordplay or slapstick, some of the biggest laughs that reading has given me have been while... More
This is an amazing Christmas story where there is adventures and funny part that take place. When I started reading this book my imagination fell into this story, it felt so real. I couldn’t wait to find out what... More
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