{"product_id":"the-girl-who-saved-christmas-isbn-9781524700478","title":"The Girl Who Saved Christmas","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe entire family will rejoice at this whimsical story of the first child to ever be gifted a Christmas present! A perfect read-aloud this holiday season. From the author of \u003ci\u003eA Boy Called Christmas–\u003c\/i\u003enow a Netflix movie starring Kristen Wiig, Maggie Smith and Henry Lawfull!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Amelia Wishart was the first child ever to receive a Christmas present. It   was her Christmas spirit that gave Santa the extra boost of magic he needed   to make his first trip around the world. But now Amelia is in trouble.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When her mother falls ill, she is sent to the workhouse to toil under cruel   Mr. Creeper. For a whole year, Amelia scrubs the floors and eats watery   gruel, without a whiff of kindness to keep her going. It's not long before   her hope begins to drain away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meanwhile, up at the North Pole, magic levels dip dangerously low as   Christmas approaches, and Santa knows that something is gravely wrong. With   the help of his trusty reindeer, a curious cat, and Charles Dickens, he sets   out to find Amelia, the only girl who might be able to save Christmas. But   first Amelia must learn to believe again. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eIf somewhere in the afterlife Roald Dahl met Charles Dickens and they cooked up a new Christmas tale, it couldn't have much on this fleet, verbally rambunctious, heart-stealing follow-up to \u003ci\u003eA Boy Called Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\"With a little bit of naughty and a lot of nice, \u003cb\u003ethis Christmastime yarn is a veritable sugarplum\u003c\/b\u003e.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Girl Who Saved Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e will melt your Grinch-frozen heart\u003c\/b\u003e\" —Simon Mayo, BBC Radio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cb\u003eA plucky adventure tale\u003c\/b\u003e in which Haig reminds us of and reworks the meaning of Christmas, pinning it onto a message of hope … Heartwarming.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Award-winning British author Matt Haig (\u003ci\u003eTo Be a Cat\u003c\/i\u003e) writes with \u003cb\u003ewarmth, wit and irreverence.\u003c\/b\u003e\" —\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eMatt Haig puts the Happy back into Christmas.\u003c\/b\u003e\" —Jeanette Winterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A\u003cb\u003e lovely, warm, enveloping\u003c\/b\u003e seasonal read.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatt Haig\u003c\/b\u003e is an internationally bestselling author whose novels for children and adults have been translated into twenty-six languages. His children’s books have won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, the Alex Award, and the Blue Peter Book Award, and been nominated several times for the Carnegie Medal and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. His most recent book, the bestselling \u003ci\u003eA Boy Called Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e, was praised by Stephen Fry as “the most evergreen, immortal Christmas story to be published for decades.” He lives in Brighton, on the south coast of England, with his wife and two children. Visit him at matthaig.com and follow @matthaig1 on Twitter.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChris Mould\u003c\/b\u003e began studying art at the age of sixteen and has gone on to become an acclaimed illustrator of children’s books, including Matt Haig’s \u003ci\u003eA Boy Called Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire. Visit him at chrismould.blogspot.com and follow @chrismouldink on Twitter.\u003cp\u003eDo you know how magic works?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe kind of magic that gets reindeer to fly in the sky? The kind that helps Father Christmas travel around the world in a single night? The kind that can stop time and make dreams come true?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat’s how.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout hope, there would be no magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt isn’t Father Christmas or Blitzen or any of the other reindeer that make magic happen on the night before Christmas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s every child who wants and wishes for it to happen. If no one wished for magic to happen, there would be no magic. And because we know Father Christmas comes every year, we know now that magic--at least some kind of magic--is real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this wasn’t always the case. There was once a time before stockings and Christmas mornings spent excitedly ripping off wrapping paper. It was quite a miserable time, when very few human children had any reason to believe in magic at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so, the very first night that Father Christmas ever decided to give human children a reason to be happy and to believe in magic, he had a lot of work to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe toys were in his sack, the sleigh and reindeer were ready, but as he flew out of Elfhelm, he knew there wasn’t enough magic in the air. He traveled through the northern lights, but they were hardly glowing at all. And the reason for the low magic levels was that there wasn’t much hoping going on. After all, how does a child hope for magic to happen if they’ve never seen it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo that very first visit from Father Christmas nearly didn’t come. And that it did happen is thanks to one thing. A single human child. A girl, in London, who believed in magic totally. Who hoped and hoped for a miracle every single day. She was the child who believed in Father Christmas before anyone else. And she was the one who helped Father Christmas, just as his reindeer were starting to struggle, because the amount she hoped, while she was lying in bed that Christmas Eve, added light to the sky. It gave Father Christmas a purpose. A direction. And he followed a thin trace of light all the way to her home, at 99 Haberdashery Road, in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd once that was done, once he had placed a full stocking of toys at the foot of her bug-ridden bed, the hope grew. Magic was there, in the world, and it spread among the dreams of all children. But Father Christmas couldn’t fool himself. Without that one child, that eight-year-old girl called Amelia Wishart, hoping so hard for magic to be real, Christmas would never have happened. Yes, it took elves and reindeer and the workshop and all of that, but she was the one who saved it. 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