My First Christmas Sticker Book

A fun, easy and interactive way to introduce very young children to the nativity story. The book is made up of story pictures on to which children can position stickers taken from the centre pages. As with the Bible Sticker Books, the stickers are low adhesive so they can be removed and replaced again and again to achieve the best effect, or to be used by another child.

Sally Ann Wright is a trained teacher and has worked in children's publishing for 25 years. She has written seven books for children, including two children's Bibles, and acted as a consultant for Christian education for a number of publishers. She has taught children of various ages from under fives to early teens in Sunday School and is actively involved in her local church. Sally Ann is married with four sons.

From: Home & Family, Winter 2005

With attractive, colourful pictures and text manageable for a young reader, this book makes a lovely Christmas present. No child can resist the allure of stickers and there is a generous middle page absolutely full of them. Each page forms a scene of the nativity requiring the addition of key figures and surrounding animals. There are suggestions as to where each sticker might go for best effect.

Once completed, it will become a much-loved storybook. The story, though one of the best known anywhere, was fresh an accessible including many parallels to a child's own life in the modern world: "Mary gave birth to her first baby, a son. There were no doctors or midwives there to help her."

Maybe the best recommendation comes from my children who clamoured: "Can we have this, can we, is this for us, can we have it, please?"

Reviewed by Hilary Cockshaw

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