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  • Father Christmas and Me

  • By: Matt Haig
  • Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
  • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (71 ratings)

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Father Christmas and Me

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
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Publisher's summary

It isn't always easy growing up as a human in Elfhelm, even if your adoptive parents are the newly married Father Christmas and Mary Christmas. For one thing, Elf School can be annoying when you have to sing Christmas songs every day - even in July - and when you fail all your toy-making tests. Also it can get very, very cold.

But when the jealous Easter Bunny and his rabbit army launch an attack to stop Christmas, it's up to Amelia, her new family and the elves to keep Christmas alive. Before it's too late....

©2017 Matt Haig (P)2017 Canongate Books
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A great ending to the trilogy

The only thing I didn’t like about this was that when one chapter ended, the next one started almost immediately. There needed to be 2-3 seconds between the chapters.

I will definitely be re-reading these books every December.

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Father Christmas and Me

My son and I enjoyed this story (the third book in the series) a lot. However we had a few issues with this recording... First of all, we both found it quite annoying that several names were pronounced differently between this book and the one before it (The Girl Who Saved Christmas). I understand that they were read by 2 different readers - but the pronunciation of names should not change. Secondly, there seems to be a technical glitch in the recording. In chapter 12, the recording repeats a big section of the preceding chapter. It’s quite weird, and caught us off guard - but we listened to the whole 2 chapters again and the same thing happened! Other than that, we enjoyed the performance a lot.

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A clever tale w/ lots of fun, magical words but...

Sometimes scary, sometimes sad..kind of like life.
My only real criticism is the very abrupt, fact timing between chapters. It made it difficult to break between them. Not sure who or why this aspect was so poorly edited.
Otherwise we really enjoyed the weave of this story between worlds and characters!

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great family listen

Great book in a family listening series leading up to the Holidays. Make it a new tradition.

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Grumpy story

Too many bad, unrealistic things happen before the “good guys” win. I kept “hoping” it would get better, but it kept dragging on.

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political commentary not christmas magic

a wall to keep humans out
shouts of lock him up
caging people up
the Easter Bunny says Make Easter Great Again
no reason to end the series like this.
thoroughly disappointed

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Really annoying to listen to

The narrator goes from whispering to shouting constantly, so I’m trying the volume up and down the entire time. Too bad they didn’t record this book with either of the narrators who recorded the first two books. This was almost unfinishable!

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