The Adventures and Questions of Jonny How: A Christmas Story, #1

By Chris Briscoe

This short Christmas story will no doubt warm your heart  - about a  nine year young boy called Jonny who is taken to Santa Claus' grotto,  Now that he is almost ten he has reached an age when he questions the existence of Santa Claus; so, he has a few questions up his sleeve; number one to ask the big man to prove that Santa Claus exists. But what ensues is they are both almost blown away - literally  - when they meet the REAL BIG MAN.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Briscoe Publishers
• Release date: Dec 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393234029

Chris Briscoe

Chris Briscoe is a writer of non-fictional books with two main audiences: 1. - to reach those people who have never heard about God's amazing and unconditional love, and then to exhort them to reach out for this love. For those who need to hear this exciting news, he shares inside these pages about God's amazing love for each one of us, and how to experience this love. 2. - to reach those who have heard about God's  love for them, individually, but have never experienced or need to experience a deeper awareness of his Spirit working miraculously in their life; to those who need a a deeper walk of faith with God, through the powerful love of daily fellowship with God the Holy Spirit.

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Why I wrote This Book:

My hope is that this story is the vessel through which the King of kings and King of all Santas, fills someone, somewhere, with the greatest hope, peace, comfort, love and joy; not just at Christmas time

but every day, as we call out to him. 

Chapter One

A Boy Called Jonny How.

JONNY HOW WAS BORN with a really inquisitive mind which means he asked a lot of questions.  He would ask a ton of questions to adults, including his mother and father. But one advantage of having a curious mind was Jonny had a vocabulary larger than his peers of his age, and all those questions and answers had also stretched his brain beyond his peers' brain.

Also, Jonny  would be ten years year old next year so he was excited at the prospect of being double-digits. What a novelty! He said to himself. That word novelty was also in Jonny’s vocabulary but not in his friends. But before his birthday, Jonny’s mind was on more immediate events. Such as Christmas.

And when Christmas came along, as was his mother’s custom, she took him for his yearly visits of Santa Claus’ grotto at the local department store called Pleasant Place - where this year, Santa Claus had an even grander grotto than previous years. His grotto had doubled in size because of last year’s demand and was covered in beautiful, sparkling gold paper which had in it beautiful imitation emeralds and rubies, which really enhanced the interior of his grotto. And this year, Santa had even employed his very own helper who was a young woman dressed as a green elf with an elf’s costume, and even she had two elf’s pointed ears she had covered over her ears. But, unfortunately, her disposition was very salty and bitter; in other words, she was so far from sweet, she could have been called Grouchy  such was her disposition. However, she was perfect for her role in other aspects as Santa's lone helper, being that she was all of five feet five inches small; dressed in a cute green elf’s outfit with green, pointed matching shoes and a green pointed beret, as well as matching red and white striped stockings and scarf.

And now Jonny