Books with author St.Christopher's RC

It’s Christmas Eve. Lights are flickering and snow is falling, whilst fireplaces glow and carollers sing. Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but for Santa, it’s not as wonderful as he’d hoped.The presents need delivering to children all over the world, but there is a problem. Santa has lost his assistant, his three foot little Elf, Twinkle.This Christmassy Tale sees Santa frantically searching the North Pole trying to find his missing Elf. The question is:Will Santa find Twinkle in time to deliver the presents?

Dreamcats follows the adventures of two siblings, Elsa and David, who are locked in a dream in which the ‘people’ are large English-speaking cats who live in a town called Felinestow. These cats regard human children either as potential pets or food. Elsa and David find themselves incapable of normal speech but are instead able to communicate to each other via meows, which are unintelligible to the cats!The siblings arrive in Felinestow and are suddenly captured and held in an animal compound. Here they learn that Felinestow’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Humans is rounding up stray children for slaughter. However, a benign police cat, George, takes them into his care as pets. At George’s home, the children meet Bozo, George’s cockney dog companion, who the children discover eats human chops. Elsa starts to plot their escape but the Siamese cats, from across the border, declare war on Felinestow’s and the children find themselves caught up in the struggle.Elsa and David are thrown into a race against time. There is so much happening in Felinestow – including upheaval and terror caused by Mayor Claptrap and his cat paramilitaries, and the children’s discovery that their cousins are also in the dream – and that though Elsa and David are constantly trying to work out whether events are real or a dream, they can’t help being swept up in the chaos and turmoil.Author Christopher Best lives in Hertfordshire and based the characters in the story around his young grandchildren who he has dedicated the book to.

(Hint: Tap the text on a kindle to enlarge it and make it easier to read)Bernie Sparks and Rocky the Rocket on Bonfire Night:This book is an educational and fun safety book for children which provides an easy and colorful step by step guide on how they can stay safe on Bonfire Night. Bonfire Night is an annual event which is celebrated each year on the 5th November in England. It is celebrated with friends and family who come together to enjoy fireworks and a bonfire. Although Bonfire Night is one of the most exciting and enjoyable nights of the year it can be dangerous, so this book aims at teaching children how to stay safe and what precautions they themselves can take on Bonfire Night. Bernie Sparks and his firework friend Rocky the Rocket are here to provide a colorful step by step guide to staying safe on Bonfire Night.

Adam Tennant sees dead people. The theft of a mysterious book and a meeting with shade Coldboy draws him into a strange and dangerous world, quite similar to 18th century London in many ways, populated by a number of intriguing characters including Investigator of the Incorporeal Mrs Arabella Peck, Historian Professor Meckl, and Titus Grimes, Supreme Apostle of the sinister Hesslerites.Adam will discover he is more than he thought, and will find his destiny inexorably linked to the fate of the Revenant Michael in the dramatic struggle to prevent the Rule of Silence from conquering England.