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CHRISTMAS BOOK

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JULIA AXEL
DONALDSON Y SCHEFFLER

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3. By Julia Donaldson
Illustrated by Axel Scheffler

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5. One day he wakes carly and gees (ea joa)
Stich Man, oh Stick Man, beware of the dog!

6. Alba
“An excellent stick!
The right kind of stick

for my favourite trick.

“TI fetch it and drop it,
and fetch it - and then

“Tl drop it and fetch it
and drop it again.”

7. And I want to go home to the family tree!

8. A notice says:

DOGS MUST BE KEPT ON THE by

‘At last the game’s over, and Stick Man is freed.

He sets off for home with a hop and a twirl.
Stick Man, oh Stick Man, beware of the girl!

“A stick!” cries the girl
with a smile on her face.
“The right kind of Pooh-stick

for winning the race!

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into the they go!

10. 1 Why can't th

“Pm not a Pooh-sti
Stick Man, I'm Stick Man, UM

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And I'm heading away from the family tree!”

ICK MAN, that’s me,

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Stick Man is floating. He float

lick Man, oh Stick Man, beware of th !

12. And I long to be back in the

family tree.”

13. He drifts down the river and sails out to sea!

15. “A mast!” yells the dad. “An excellent mast!

“Hooray! There's a flag on our castle at last.”

16. “Pm not a mast for a silly old flag,

Or a sword for a knight...

or a hook for a bag.

17. I'm not a bat. . or a boomerang = no,

lu

18. A SN Siok Man, ob Stick Man, beware ofthe snow!

Here comes a boy in a warm woolly scarf:

“An arm for my snowman!” he says with a laugh

19. “PM NOT AN ARM! Can nobody see,
Pm Stick Man, Im Stick Man, IM STICK MAN, that's me!

“Will I ever get back to the family tree?”

21. He can't hear the bells, or the sweet-singing choir...

22. Stick Man is |,

ying asleep in the grate,

24. He dreams of his kids and his Stick I

ady Love,

25. Then suddenly wakes.
Wha
It starts as a chuckle,

then turns to a shout:
“Oh-ho-ho ho-ho . . . 'm STUCK!
Get me OUT!”

A Stuck Man? A Stuck Man?
Now who could that be?

es Stick Man.

“Don't worry!

“Ill soon set you free.”

A scratch and a scrape and

a flurry of soot.

A wiggle, a jiggle, and —
out pokes a foot!

A shove dios

a hop and a jump...

28. ‘Then Stick Man helps Santa deliver the toys

To fast-asleep girls. ..

29. Faster and faster they fly through the

31. en are sad.

Stick Ladys lonely. The c
It won't feel like Christmas without their Stick Dad.

and they turn in the family bed.

They

But what is that clattering sound overhead?

Someone is tumbling into their house.

Is it a bird, or a bat, or a mouse?

Or could it... yes, could it just possibly be. ..

34. For Adelie

y New Delhi eng Kong
parade edition plied 2009

Tent copyght © 2008 Julia Donald
rations copight © 2008 Al Scheer

HBISBN: 978 1 407106 17
PB ISBN: 978 1 407108 8

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35. There are lots of fantastic hooks

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