Aliens and Angels: Three Stories For Christmas

by Sue Hampton

Overview

Sue Hampton captures the spirit of Christmas with three warm-hearted stories full of humour, mystery and magic. In the title story, the school Nativity play has been cast and Robbie would rather be an angel than a spotty, hopping globalob, but no one seems to understand. Not Without A Carrot is the story of Trouble, a wilful donkey whose life changes one starlit night long ago. And in Bootee for Etta, a girl who feels alone on Christmas morning finds a tiny lamb in a grassy box.

With illustrations by children from schools Sue has visited, this is a book to make you smile at any time of year.

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940149398126
Publisher:	Pneuma Springs Publishing
Publication date:	09/26/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	100
File size:	562 KB
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Ex-teacher Sue Hampton now has nineteen published books for children and adults, one of which, TRACES, made the top three in The People’s Book Prize 2012. Her work across a range of genres has been praised by her hero, Michael Morpurgo: “terrific” “enthralling” and “beautifully written”. Sue has made over three hundred author visits to schools, aiming to inspire children and teenagers to read and write. She also addresses adult book groups, U3As and writers’ groups with her husband, poet and novelist Leslie Tate, and has guest-lectured to trainee teachers on the importance of using good writing in the classroom. With her alopecia and bare head, Sue also likes to share the message that it’s O.K. to be different.

Editorial Reviews

"Delightful short Christmas themed stories with a deceptively light style where the very different characters are all dealing with difficult but survivable situations in a very positive way.
Sue Hampton give us three very different stories, each with its own very appealing charm."

Retired school librarian - Sue Dyer

"I absolutely loved these stories. They all gave me that warm fuzzy Christmassy feeling. The descriptions in the stories are amazing and really help you to picture what's going on...This book deserves to be very successful. It is absolutely delightful."

School librarian - Heather Pretty

"Sue Hampton is a well-known local writer with over 20 books for children and young adults to her name. Her latest book, Aliens and Angels, is a collection of three stories with a Christmas theme. Sue's stories are always beautifully written with rich visual imagery, and they are full of humour and imagination. Her new collection makes us see three familiar aspects of Christmas in a different light."

Northchurch Parish magazine - Editor -

"Aliens and Angels' is a very beautiful and interesting story which deals with issues most children have.
The book is easy to read, beautifully written and I recommend it to children all over. It is sure to be one that will be read over and over again."

Ex-minister - Lottie Yinka

"I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Imaginative stories and great illustrations. Well done."

Teifi Scribblers - Jenefer Llewllyn Ferguson

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