Wrapping! Decorating! Waiting for Santa! Join Kipper for festive fun in this cuddle-up classic. At last – it’s Christmas Eve: the most magical night of the year! It’s time to choose a tree, wrap up presents and get ready for Santa. Kipper can hardly decide what’s better: Christmas Eve or Christmas Day; opening presents, or the thrill of waiting for them. But can he help Pig and Tiger to hang their stockings up… and give Arnold the best-ever Christmas surprise?

All-time classic starring Mick Inkpen’s iconic puppy

Captures all the festive excitement of Christmas Eve

Heartwarming message of friendship and sharing

“A typically enchanting story” – Junior

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781444916232

Publisher

Hodder Children's Books

Date published

October 2nd, 2014

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Mick Inkpen

Mick Inkpen is one of the most popular author/illustrators in the world. His books have sold over 4 million copies, and have been translated into over twenty different languages. His best-loved characters are probably Kipper and Wibbly Pig – who are both stars of their very own TV series!

He began his career as a graphic designer, and worked with another children’s author Nick Butterworth (of Percy the Park Keeper fame) on a cartoon strip for the Sunday Express. In 1989 The Blue Balloon was published to great acclaim, and established him as an important and original voice in children’s picture books. He and his wife, Debbie, also had children of their own by this point: “Without the experience of having children of my own I doubt that I would have been capable of writing effectively for children. And yet it’s true that good work really springs from trying to please yourself”

Mick lives in Essex with his wife and two children.

He began his career as a graphic designer, declining a place to study English at Cambridge University. During this period he worked with Nick Butterworth, a fellow children’s author, from whom he learned design and typography. Together they developed a cartoon strip for the Sunday Express magazine, later to become a first series of children’s picture books. They also worked in children’s television.

In 1989 The Blue Balloon established him as a truly original voice in children’s picture books, by which time Mick and his wife Debbie had two children of their own. “Without the experience of having children of my own I doubt that I would have been capable of writing effectively for children. And yet it’s true that good work really springs from trying to please yourself”