Sprouts

I absolutely ADORED it! A really funny, clever, brilliant play on all the Christmas tropes. It just has to be made into a movie!'' Emma Carroll on TINSEL ''Very sparkly storytelling and a lovely portrayal of friendship'' Hilary McKay on TINSEL '' Tinsel is Christmas spirit wrapped in a fun, feminist parcel'' Lesley Parr on TINSEL ***Enter the future where it''s Christmas day . every day. Except, that is, on the Mince Pie Isles where a group of rebel witches live in secret, illegally celebrating just once a year and practising their sprout-based magic passed down through an old spell book from Guardian to Guardian. Gryla Garland is a young witch who thinks it might be quite nice to celebrate Christmas every day, just like everyone else. But when the hapless and accident-prone young witch is unexpectedly chosen as the next Guardian of the spell book, she discovers that 24/7 Christmas - governed by a tyrannical Santa - isn''t all it''s cracked up to be. Now she just has to think of a way to change it back .>

Product details

• Authors: Sibeal Pounder, Sibéal Pounder
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2023
• EAN: 9781526639462
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-3946-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 202 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Christmas, JUVENILE NONFICTION / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s gift books, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Humorous stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories