by Amanda Harvey (Illustrator), HilaryMcKay (Author)
Bella made Christmas decorations, sung carols and even met Santa Claus, but that wasn't Christmas! She baked mince pies, iced the cake and decorated the tree, but that wasn't Christmas either. Bella bought presents for mum and dad, hung Christmas nuts for the birds and made a snowman, and still Christmas hadn't arrived. She left a glass a wine for Santa Claus, a carrot for the reindeer and hung her stocking up. Was that Christmas?
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 32
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Published: 17 Oct 2002
ISBN 10: 0340866268
ISBN 13: 9780340866269
Children’s book age: 0-5 Years
Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children's Award with her first novel, The Exiles. Her subsequent work has achieved similar recognition - The Exiles at Home won the Smarties Prize and the Dog Friday trilogy was critically acclaimed. A graduate of Botany and Zoology from St Andrews University, Hilary now writes full-time. She lives in Derbyshire with her husband and children.
Amanda Harvey is a prolific children's illustrator, who won the Mother Goose Award in 1991. She has illustrated many books written by Dick King-Smith. Amanda has also illustrated the work of authors as diverse as Magrit Cruickshank, Ilene Cooper, Jean Richardson, Sandra Anne Horn and the Brothers Grimm. In addition to this, she has illustrated several of her own stories.