Cuddle up and get ready to be scared, tickled, excited and delighted this holiday season with this festive feel good rhyming Christmas adventure by author Daniel Thompson and illustrated by the fabulous Connor Edwards.
Described as the meeting of Dr Seuss and Roald Dahl on a snowy Christmas Eve The Christmas Tale of Elaine Gale is an alternative tale for a children’s book. Yes, there are kids involved, Santa makes an entrance, and it’s the happy seasonal ending all readers hope for. However, this unique story also includes humour, an evil queen, and naughty parents… What’s not to love?
The characters are Ben, Daniel, and Claire (ages 11, 10, and 7) who set about building a snowman. Young Claire names their new creation Elaine, much to the horror of her brothers.
“How?” said Dan “does a snow man, have a name that isn’t male?”
“Well he’s a she, a she like me, and her name is Elaine Gale.”©
Claire the young protagonist and keen wordsmith, weaves a scary tale around their new snow queen Elaine Gale. Before long the evil queen comes to life to wreak havoc, leaving our poor little heroes with a town to save on Christmas Eve.
The rhyming is beautifully done, you will chuckle along throughout and the illustrations are stunning and really bring the story to life.
Before we start, dear faint of heart, I give you warning fair.
For in this rhyme, from time to time, you might get quite a scare.
This Christmas story, gets quite gory, so if you are the type,
To squeal and squirm at bugs and worms, it’s one you may not like.
But if you wish, if you insist, I’ll tell a tale I know,
Of an evil queen, who’s very mean, and entirely made of snow.©
– Daniel Thompson, The Christmas Tale of Elaine Gale
★★★★★This poetic page turner is the perfect gift for young and old alike to get you into the festive spirit this Christmas.★★★★★
FROM THE BACK COVER
In this book that you hold, a true story unfolds,
Of a Christmas not too long ago.
Where I’m lead to believe, on a cold Christmas eve,
Three Siblings played out in the snow.
As all children do, when the snow bustles through,
They built an acquaintance to scale.
But not a snow man, as suggested by Dan,
They built a snow queen, Elaine Gale
And they started to tell, how she’d cast an old spell,
For every child to be cruel.
For if no names exist, on Santa’s nice list,
There would be no Christmas at all.
But little did they know, as they played in the snow,
Before the night was through.
That story they told, would find life in the cold.
And every word would come true.