This is a book review Bryn and I wrote for the Guardian Family Reviews section

A cautionary tale of the dangers of being too greedy at Christmas time involving a crafty Santa, a ‘Gimungus’ egg and plenty of mess.

I have to confess, I didn’t find this a very satisfying read. Personally I found some of the phrasing clumsy especially when reading aloud such as ‘you’ll need new underweary’. The unpleasant image of Christmas in diarrhoea was off putting but then again I’m not the intended audience.

Bryn however did enjoy it & found it very funny. On reading the title he wondered what exactly was in Santa’s sack in the picture on the cover. The story includes 3 of his current favourite topics Christmas, Dinosaur and poo & the bright illustrations add to the fun of the story. After only a few readings he has also taken on board the moral of the story and when writing his list to Santa he was keen to tell me that his list was not as longs as Danny’s therefore his was reasonable.

A festive treat which I imagine will be read a number of times over this festive period hopefully in between some more classic stories which contain less poo for my benefit.