When Santa Got Stuck in a Gum Tree
Age 1+
Picture Storybooks
The best-selling Aussie Christmas book from Jackie Hosking and Nathaniel Eckstrom, now in board book format for the littlest Christmas kids!
It’s Christmas Eve but Santa is stuck in a gum tree! How will he deliver the presents?
Luckily, an enthusiastic cast of Aussie animals are up for the challenge. But despite their Christmas spirit, unsticking Santa is harder than they thought! Maybe they need a new plan …
Creators
Jackie Hosking is a Nigerian-born Cornish Australian who moved to Australia when she was ten. Jackie began writing for children after completing a creative writing course at her local community house in a seaside town off The Great Ocean Road in Victoria. In 2012 she was awarded a Maurice Saxby Mentorship and in 2011 she mentored a Maurice Saxby Mentee on writing in rhyme. Her picture book The Croc and the Platypus was published by Walker Books Australia in 2014, followed by An Amazing Australian Road Trip in 2021. In 2019 Jackie was awarded a May Gibbs Creative Time Fellowship where she spent a month in Canberra. Jackie loves to write in rhyme and when she’s not writing in rhyme she enjoys helping others with their rhyme.
Nathaniel Eckstrom is an illustrator based in Sydney, Australia. He has worked on a number of children’s picture books including Stubborn Stanley, The Hole Idea, Roadtrip and The Dress-Box. His previous titles with Walker Books include Duck!, written by Meg McKinlay, and Ten Little Figs, written by Rhian Williams.
Reviews
An entertaining Christmas book with a distinctly Australian tone and an underlying message of the power of collaboration and teamwork.
CBCA Reading Time
Told in joyful, masterful rhyme, this book is a gem that begs to be read aloud … Children will adore the animal antics along with the tongue-twisting good times, and just between you and me, adult readers will also derive great satisfaction from reading this to their littles!
Kids' Book Review
With its clever rhyming text and hilarious illustrations, this is a uniquely Australian story that is going to appeal to all ages, especially if they are invited to suggest solutions to Santa’s problem or speculate on how the children will feel if there is nothing special under the tree in the morning because Santa is still stuck in the tree!
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