Description
A delightful, festive story in this funny, illustrated Australian series for newly independent readers.
It's Christmastime, but Flick and Birdie are missing their Granny Aggie. To cheer them up, Mum and Dad invite the neighbours over to decorate gingerbread houses. All is going well until Mrs Mortlake brings up Christmas wishes, giving baby Birdie all the wrong ideas.
How can Flick spread the joy of Christmas when a gingerbread person is biting the guests?
Review
It is the first Christmas without Granny Aggie, and Flick and her family are not really feeling the Christmas spirit. But Granny loved Christmas, and she wouldn't want them to be sad, so Flick comes up with an idea to try and make them all feel better - making gingerbread houses!
Flick’s Dad decides that it would be nice to invite the neighbours, Mrs Mortlake and Mr Tran, along with Flick's best friend, Oli, and his family to make an afternoon of it, and they are all ready to have some fun and feel the joy of Christmas.
But we all know that when Birdie and the imp are around, anything can happen - if only they would all stop talking about wishes, because Birdie does not need any encouragement with those!
This is a lovely, magical story about friendship, family, thinking of others and enjoying Christmas.
Books 1 and 2 were part of our March selection, and Books 3 and 4 were included in July, so it is wonderful to finish the year off with a Christmas story in this great series for junior students. You don't need to have read the other books to enjoy this, but if you have read the others you are sure to love this one too.
Reviewed by Sam
