As I have mentioned previously, we love books and think reading offers so many benefits so it will not be a surprise to you that we are championing another book. This one is in time for Christmas! As well as this, we are offering one lucky person the chance to win a £25 Amazon e-gift card to allow you to buy some books of your own (or whatever you fancy spending it on!). This is our very first giveaway so we’re excited about this. If it’s successful, we might run some more giveaways in the future!
So the book…
As you can see, the book is hilariously titled ‘Father Christmas Needs a Wee’. I was first introduced to this book when I was teaching and I needed a book which would introducing counting backwards. This book, being near to Christmas, was perfect.
The book follows Father Christmas on his rounds delivering presents. Counting to 10, the book begins to outline how many drinks he has drank which results in him desperately needing a wee.
Unfortunately, in his haste he forgets to leave the presents so he has to retrace his steps. This is where counting backwards comes in.
I won’t spoil the rest of the story but Father Christmas has a hellish time trying to make it to the toilet in time!
The book is extremely attractive as each page is filled with colour and illustrations. The illustrations also display a row of the given item which allows the children to practice counting them, further enforcing their counting skills.
What stood out the most for me is that the book was larger than average and the text was displayed well. The author has included both the numeral and the number word which is extremely useful to children, i.e. 5 and five.
I also especially liked that there was a page at the front for the children to personalise the book.
When reviewing, I try hard to not get too carried away with what I love and try to think if there are any areas for improvement and I really struggled to find any. My one disappointment is that Little One isn’t old enough to enjoy it properly but it’s on his book shelf and I can’t wait to read it with him when he’s a little older!
Do you want to own the book? We’re giving away a £25 e-gift voucher for Amazon which you can use to buy your own (or just spend it on whatever you fancy!). If you can’t wait to purchase the book then you can buy it here.
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202 comments
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.
I love the Very Hungry Caterpillar book 🙂
My goodness. What a silly book! Creative. I’ll give them that.
I love lots! At the mo it is To Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers!
There’s lots that I like! I love everything by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory 🙂 x
I do like dr Seuss!
Chicken Licken x
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory is their fav
Any Beatrix Potter books – beautifully illustrated and still magical!
Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe was my fav as a child.
The Pirates Next Door
a book my mum used to read me called mervyn the mouse
my favourite kids book….. hmmmm. stick man 🙂
What a fun book we like the very hungry Caterpillar childrens book
We love Room on the broom
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
The very hungry caterpiller
I like The Very hungry Caterpillar
I used to love the Famous Five books 🙂
The Faraway Tree
dear zoo x
Charlotte’s web
Got to be ‘Aliens Wear Underpants’!
We love Mr men books
It would have to be The BFG by Roald Dahl 🙂
The Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet Ahlberg
The gruffalo is my little boys favourite book
Beauty and the Beast
My favourite childrens book is probably Ballet Shoes. My niece adores the Nicholas Allen books. I bought her Father Christmas Needs A Wee 2 Christmases ago and last year I bought her Father Christmas Comes Up Trumps and she thinks both of them are hilarious.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
I love the Dr Seuss books!
i love peter rabbit books
Enid Blyton’s – Holiday Stories
my favourite to read to the kids is ‘The last Noo noo’
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, thanks.x
The gruffalo
I love the Beatrix Potter books
beatrix potter,petter rabbit x
I love all the WInnie the Pooh stories, very heartwarming 🙂
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe xx
we love bear hunt
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Wind in the willows
We love the Gruffalo 🙂
Guess How Much I Love You is a solid favourite.
room on the broom
I love books like ‘Father Christmas Needs a Wee’…a bit of toilet humour always goes down brilliantly with all ages of children 😉 The Gruffalo is my little fella’s favourite book – seems like a lot of others say the same? x
i like the Tracey Beaker books x
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
Room on The Broom is my favourite childrens book
The Jolly Postman
Any of the Mog books except Goodbye Mog. I cried my eyes out reading that one!
The hungry caterpillar <3
Giraffe’s can’t dance.
The Snowman
Monkey Puzzle
Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
the hungry caterpillar
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
My favourite children’s book is The Gruffalo
Any Thomas Tank book for youngest grandson
My favourite childhood books were the Garfield cartoon strips 🙂
The Gruffalo
Kiss Goodnight Sam
The Hungry Caterpillar
We have a great book called commotion in the ocean. It’s my favourite for the kids.
the princess and the pea
Definitely The Gruffalo
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
My favourite children’s books were the Faraway Tree books by Enid Blyton.
I agree whole-heartedly with Emma Walton,Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree books were my favourite then and I’ll admit to occasionally reading them now when I’m feeling just a little bit down. My disappointment came when my daughter (now almost 18) just didn’t take to them.
Peace at Last Jill Murphy!
Georges marvellous medicine
My favourite children’s book is The Hobbit, as it was originally supposed to be for children!
Elmer is my favourite
i love enid blyton books, especially the faraway tree books 🙂
The Snowman
Matilda
the very hungry catapillar
Any of the Famous Five or Secret Seven books
The Tiger who came to Tea
My favourite book is the 3 little pigs, I used to read it to my 8 year old when he was younger and I now read it to my one year old and they both love it. I’d love the opportunity to get some books for my youngest boy
It has to the fantastic book The Hungry Caterpillar.
Mine absolutely love the gruffalo every single night, I hope they find a new fave soon
The Tiger Who came to tea
Danny Champion of the world
for me The Enchanted Wood is my favourite children’s book. I loved it so much. Ive already bought a set for my daughter.
Guess how much I love you
The Tiger who came to tea is my sons fave
Depends on her mood, Wish upon a star is a favourite at bedtime though 🙂
The Book of Brownies by Enid Blyton
I really like reading Stickman to my little girl
Each peach pear plum!!
The Gruffalo
Jolly postman
The Very Hungry Caterpillar!
where the wildthings are
The Jolly Postman – love all of the mail!
Roahl Dahl James and the giant peach
The Gruffalo
I love you dad book xx
The Gruffalo would have to be my favourite! 🙂
We have this book and my boys love it. My own favourite children’s book is The Gruffalo
Our favourites: Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?, The Gruffalo and Dear Zoo 🙂
the gruffalo
The Hungry Caterpillar
My favourite, ever since I was a child is The Hobbit
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
i love the Roald Dahl books, especially James and the giant peach
The Magic Faraway Tree was my favourite when I was a child
The BFG
The Magic Faraway Tree was my fave as a kid xxx
I love the Harry Potter series – shame they weren’t around when I was a child. Rafflecopter entries are in my real name NIKKI HAYES, thanks for the lovely giveaway :o)
Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton
Heidi
The kids have a book called the mummy shop which I enjoy reading to them!
We love the “That’s not my….” range of books. This book is ideal for my nephews though as they love counting but could do with some help counting backwards!
Mallory Towers by Enid Blyton
famous five I loved all the books read them all george was my favorite
i love the enid blyton famous five books
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Little Prince
Five Go to Smuggler’s Top
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
The Gruffalo
The Fantastic Mr Fox, by Roald Dahl. Such a memorable book with magical moments throughout!
Famous Five and Secret Seven by Enid Blyton
The Tiger Who Came To Tea is my favourite children’s book 🙂
The Hungry Little Caterpillar
Mine is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
For the youngest children, my favourite is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Brilliant.
The Wishing Chair – Enid Blyton
The Magic Faraway Tree,
Stig of the dump
Winnie The Pooh
the lion, the witch and the wardrobe
The Magic Faraway Tree, my most favourite book ever
My Friend Flicka
The Lorax was my favourite book as a child.
The Magic Faraway Tree Books
The tiger who came to tea
Ballet Shoes
Winnie the Pooh
My Favourite Book is “Of Mice & Men”
I have a christmas book that I’ve had since I was one year old called Tosca’s Christmas it is a lovely book
Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
My favorite childrens book is The Jolly Postman 🙂
Colours, by Shirley Hughes
The Faraway Tree Stories by Enid Blyton.
The famous five
The Famous Five / The Secret Seven xx
The faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
I love the Harry Potter books, but for smaller kids, the gruffalo
My children love “we’re going on a bear hunt “
Five on a treasure island
The Tiger who came to tea x
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
I loved all of the Enid Blyton books when I was a child 🙂 x
At the moment our favourite book is Burglar Bill!
The gruffalo
Anything by David Walliams
My favourite childrens book is The Railway Street, I still have my original book and read it to my son
the cat in the hat
The hungry caterpillar xx
My favourite children’s book is The Gruffalo
I loved all of the Alfie books
I love The Gruffalo, it’s such a well written book 🙂
The Gruffalo’s Child
My favourite children’s book is The Smartest Giant in Town.
Alice in Wonderland – and it still is my favourite book 🙂
My two love The Twitts 🙂
Danny the champion of the world
The faraway tree, loved enid blighton as a child
My favourite children’s book is Jack and the Flum Flum Tree
The lion the witch and the wardrobe
My favourite book is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, or Matilda 🙂
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
I love, love, love ‘Guess How Much I Love You’ and love reading it to the little ones, that or ‘Oh Dear’ is a fun one too.
hairy maclary
I love pip and Posey books
Anything by Rohld Dahl xx
The Gruffalo
When I was little, I got a book of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytales for Christmas???? I treasured it & even thinking of it now makes me very happy????????
My favourite book from my childhood is The BFG – my eldest is 7 & I’m really looking forward to reading it with her x
Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree!
the night before christmas
Beauty and the beast loved that story
peter rabbit x
BFG by Roald Dahl x
My favourite children’s book is The Gruffalo
We love anything by Julia Donaldson – Tabby McTat is our current favourite!
paper dolls book is our fav
We love the Snowman particularly at this time of the year, it’s festive and beautiful. Have a lovely Christmas.
Faraway Tree
The Jolly Postman x
Room on the Broom
I loved the Enid Blyton books – Famous Five, Faraway Tree series etc
Where The Wild Things Are, anything by Dr Seuss for younger, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for older.
Roald Dahl Matilda
hungry caterpillar x