The Great Reindeer Rescue: the fantastically funny festive adventure by bestselling Stephen Mangan!
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A high-energy, brilliantly silly, fully illustrated festive adventure story by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist Anita Mangan.
It’s Christmas Eve and one of Santa’s reindeers, Dave, is FED UP. He’s stuck behind boastful Rudolph again and a fart-in-the-face is the LAST STRAW.
In the commotion, Santa crash lands on the roof of nine-year-old Holly’s home causing an almighty Christmas lights explosion that blasts the reindeers to far-flung corners of the Earth. It’s up to Dave and Holly to fly round the world to rescue all the reindeers.
Can Holly and Dave get all the reindeers back to Santa to SAVE CHRISTMAS?
- This funniest festive adventure is a must-read spin on The Night Before Christmas
- From the bestselling creators of The Fart That Changed the World and Escape the Rooms
Praise for Stephen and Anita’s books:
“Brilliant, clever, kind of genius” Graham Norton
“Manages to feel both classic and modern at the same time” Good Housekeeping
“A beautiful and exciting adventure that ignites the imagination” Edith Bowman
Stephen Mangan is a bestselling author, actor and presenter. His comic gift is seen in shows such as Green Wing, I’m Alan Partridge and Episodes.
Stephen appears in drama such as BBC One’s The Split and regularly performs on stage in roles such as a much-praised Scrooge in The Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol. Stephen presents Portrait and Landscape Artist of the Year and new gameshows Password and The Fortune Hotel. He is a guest presenter on Pointless and Have I Got News for You.
Anita Mangan is a successful illustrator and designer whose remarkable artwork sparks with wit and style. She worked for Comic Relief before becoming a designer and illustrator. Since then, she has worked on award-winning books and the bestselling “Be a Unicorn, Sloth, Flamingo…” series – as well as illustrating Stephen’s children’s novels.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Scholastic, 1st edition (12 Oct. 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 324 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0702330825 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0702330827 |
| Reading age | 9 – 12 years |
| Dimensions | 19.8 x 3 x 13.4 cm |
by Miss Sharon Hazlewood
Lovely funny & good story specially a good read to the grandkids!
by J SYDNEY
This book is to go on my kids stocking, I always like to get a book to go in there. I thought I would read a bit myself to see if it’s as funny as described. I found this a great book and I’m sure any kids will enjoy reading it. This arrived in perfect condition and is hard back. About average price for a book. Would recommend this as a great Christmas book that could be enjoyed all year around
by D. Gardiner
I don’t know if the name Dave has always been funny or if it’s just over the past few years but here it is the perfect name for the newbie sleigh-puller. Big-hearted and desperate to do a good job, when he is thrown into the deep end with only Holly to help him, he steps up marvellously well to avert what would otherwise be the most awful crisis. As he finds the other reindeer, we get to see their individual characters – some of which are quite surprising – adding to the hilarity in an often quite surreal fashion, which will delight children picking this up.
Throughout the story, the writer’s text is wonderfully illustrated by his sister, Anita, making this a very appealing choice for readers in KS2. Although possibly aimed at more confident readers in Years 5 and 6, this would also make a wonderful shared bedtime read with those a year or two younger, with adults enjoying much of the humour too.
by Miss R Constable
Great addition to the family Christmas library. Will be cheerfully read again and again by all three generations
by Its Me!
This is a perfect book for the run to Christmas and my 8 year old is very much enjoying the story so far. Plenty of humour and some lovely illustrations too!
by Dave Collins
Review for: The Great Reindeer Rescue: the fantastically funny festive adventure by bestselling Stephen Mangan!
Price £8.89
Lovely quality, brightly coloured, hard backed book. A great story which we are going to love reading over the Christmas period. We have a cat named Dave so the kids are going to love that there is now a reindeer named Dave too.
by Rob
My 7 year old read this book with me as a run-up to Christmas and she loved it. She found it relatively easy enough to read, but did stumble on a couple of words. She enjoyed the story very much.
The quality of the book is excellent, with clear text that’s relatively large. The images are fun and my daughter laughed at a few of them. Overall, this is a great Christmas book that we’ll roll out each year – looking forward to reading it with my youngest in a couple of weeks.
by Rob
This is a perfect book for the run to Christmas aimed at children around 6-12.
The book is well produced in hardcover with a slipcase cover.
Good text size and clear printing.
Entertaining story
Perfect stocking filler.