The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales by Peter Friend

The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales by Peter Friend

The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales: 31 short stories by 27 authors including Joy Cowley, David Hill and Dave Freer. What will Santa put under your tree this Christmas? A present that growls? Or one that smiles? The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales - crazy Christmas adventures for the whole family Christmas in outer space or at the beach, havoc in Santa's workshop, monsters running amok, and mad scientists who turn Christmas into chaos. Come along for the sleigh ride of your life, as these Twisty Tales weave their festive magic, whipping across New Zealand pastures, scattering fairy dust on the way to a Christmas BQ Foreword by David Hill. Do weird things ever happen to you at Christmas? You get strange presents, you have to eat peculiar food, people put on crazy hats? I remember one Christmas dinner with candles on the table. One candle set fire to a Christmas cracker as it was being opened. The cracker set fire to some paper napkins. The paper napkins set fire to the tablecloth. One of my uncles had to pour a whole jug of custard on the flames to put them out. Here's a bunch of Christmas stories where seriously weird and twisty things happen.

Joy Cowley began to write for children as a way to help her son with his reading. Since then, she has written over 400 books for early readers, including the Boston Globe/Horn Book winner Red-Eyed Tree Frog, Mrs. Wishy-Washy, Big Moon Tortilla, and Gracias, The Thanksgiving Turkey. Her latest title is Chameleon, Chameleon, which is a follow-up to the Red-Eyed Tree Frog. She currently writes for both adults and children.In grade school, Joy was struggled with reading. However, when she discovered the adventures found in books, she forgot that she couldn't read. By the age of 11, I was a book addict who haunted the local library, says Joy. And like all children who over-dose on reading, I penned the overflow. Writing too, became an addiction.She married a farmer when she was twenty-years-old, lived on a dairy farm and raised four children. During those years I milked cows, changed diapers, made puppets and play dough and wrote short stories in the evenings. Joy states. An editor in New York read one of those stories, reprinted in Short Story International. That query led to five novels for adults. She was also writing stories for her son Edward, who was a slow reader. These little stories made their way to other children, other schools and by the early 1970s, teachers were making big books from them to use with their students. Can you get these stories published? they asked.Joy is still writing full-time. These days the creative hours are divided between adult writing - articles, spiritual reflection material, stories and novels - and books for children.Joy Cowley lives in New Zealand with her family.
Sibert Medalist Nic Bishop is the author and photographer of many award-winning books for children, including Red-Eyed Tree Frog; Chameleon, Chameleon; Nic Bishop Spiders; and most recently, Nic Bishop Snakes. He has a doctorate in biological sciences and a passionate interest in many of the smaller animals on our planet. Nic lives in New Zealand. Visit him online at nicbishop.com.

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ISBN 13	9780994115508
ISBN 10	0994115504
Title	The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales
Author	Peter Friend
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Phantom Feather Press
Year published	2014-11-01
Number of pages	224
Prizes	Short-listed for Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collected Work 2015
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.