How Winston delivered Christmas

How Winston delivered Christmas is a lovely Christmas / Advent type book is written by Alex T. Smith and was published in 2019. In this story we follow a sweet mouse as he tries to deliver a letter he finds to Santa on Christmas eve. He is very brave considering how small he is and how bad the weather is, and he meets some interesting characters along the way as well. I won't spoil the story, but suffice to say it's a great ending that you wouldn't expect.

We read this one pretty quickly in the week after Christmas, and both my kids, aged 3 and 6 really enjoyed the story. I thought it was really well written and fun to read, although if you read it quickly then some of the story seems to drag a little. I definitely think it would be better to read as intended- 1 chapter per day from December 1st to December 25th.

I would happily try reading this one again in December 2021, but slowly and perhaps we could tackle some of the activities. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that, didn't I. Each day has an activity suggested and explained after the chapter for the day. I wouldn't try to tackle them all, since December is a pretty busy month for an extra activity every day, but I would happily tackle some of them.

Some of my favorites were a discussion of Christmas traditions in other countries, instructions on how to make paper chains, how to decorate wrapping paper and writing a letter to Santa.

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