The Best Christmas Present in the World

This was a very quick read about a letter discovered in an old desk. The new owner finds that this was a letter written from the trenches of WWI on Christmas day when the fighting stopped, they exchanged food and drink and played football. A sad read made even more sad by the letter being returned t......more

This book had a profound effect on me as a child. A teacher read it aloud to my class when I was in early primary school at the end of one day and it gave me goosebumps and a love of writing desks (I ended up saving to buy one as a teenager and spending hours looking for secret drawers as a result o......more

A heart rending short story , but carved on a familiar idea .......more

This is one of my favourite books written by Michael Morpurgo. The story is about the Christmas truce in World War One, where both sides stopped fighting and joined together for a football game. It allows the reader to see further into the reality of the war - where each soldier is not a pawn in war......more

Lovely short story......more