Charlotte Ritchie

A festive audio collection of magical Christmas stories from a range of Puffin's much-loved authors as well as six brand-new tales!

Cosy up and get ready for a magical Christmas with this festive collection of 12 Puffin tales, featuring much-loved Puffin authors. This collection includes:

Magical extracts from Christmas is Coming, A Winter's Tale and Demerara Sugar by Beatrix Potter
Alfie's Christmas by Shirley Hughes
Night Before Christmas by Clement Clark Moore
The Nativity by May Eliot

And six brand-new original stories, perfect for getting the whole family into the Christmas spirit!

Written specifically for bedtime, this story follows Twinkle the unicorn as she finds herself on another night-time adventure. It's Christmas Eve, and Twinkle is too excited to sleep... but someone else is having problems of his own! Can Twinkle help save Christmas and still get to bed on time? With a ten minute countdown at the heart of this enchanting story, little ones will love following Twinkle on a brand new adventure. Finishing on a gentle end, it's the perfect bedtime tale

This is the perfect story to calm little sleepy dragons everywhere, just in time to go to bed. Soaring high in the skies to find adventure, little dragon siblings Flicker and Flash are doing their best to avoid going to bed. But then they spot a lost egg that they need to get back to its mother - will they get back in time?

Full of balloons, presents and birthday fun (and a sprightly unicorn and her friends), little readers will love this calming tale before bed. It's Twinkle the unicorn's birthday and she's having a sleepover party! There are party games, presents, cake, balloons and even fireworks! But as Twinkle's dad counts down to bedtime, there's still a lot going on . . . will Twinkle and her friends go to sleep in time?

Naomi always wanted to be a mother. But three years ago, her husband left, taking their child with him. Now, her daughter has come to stay, and Naomi knows it's her one chance to re-build her family. But the night ends in a terrible accident. And Naomi has no memory of what happened. Panicking, desperate, Naomi finds herself telling a lie: 'My daughter is missing.' Now she can never take it back.