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The Christmas Carrolls

By: Mel Taylor-Bessent
Narrated by: Shakira Newton
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Publisher's Summary

Funny, festive middle grade about the world's most Christmassy family from the founder of Authorfy, perfect for age eight and over listeners and fans of Matt Haig, Ben Miller, Sibeal Pounder’s Tinsel and the Nativity! films.

Wish it could be Christmas every day? Well, for nine-year-old Holly Carroll and her family, it is! Living her merriest life in a house with year-round fairy lights and Christmas trees, a carol-singing toilet and a diva donkey who thinks he’s a reindeer, home-schooled Holly tries to spread cheer wherever she goes.

But when she goes to a new school with a singing Santa backpack and first-day Christmas cards (during a heatwave in September!), she realises not everyone shares her enthusiasm for spreading cheer. In fact, when the neighbours try to remove the Carrolls from the street and Holly discovers a group of children who may not get a Christmas at all, her snow globe world begins to crack. Is the world’s most Christmassy girl about to lose her Christmas spirit?

The Christmas Carrolls is a heart-warming, hilarious and inclusive tale about the power of spreading cheer, the magic of friendship and what really matters at this most wonderful time of the year.

©2021 Mel Taylor-Bessent (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic Reviews

"As warm and cosy as drinking hot chocolate in your favourite Christmas jumper. A festive feast of fun." (Maz Evans, best-selling author of Who Let the Gods Out)

"A Christmas book about kindness and cheer to make even Scrooge’s heart melt." (Dame Jacqueline Wilson)

"Fizzing with energy and festive cheer, The Christmas Carrolls is a heart-warming must-read for the Christmas period. Mel’s writing sparkles like the star on top of a Christmas Tree." (Jennifer Bell, author of the Uncommoners trilogy)

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