The Fight Before Christmas

By J. D. Thomas and Hannah Maryse Robinson

Edwina, the Christmas tree fairy, has been in control of the Christmas tree ornaments for longer than most of them can remember. But this year, there’s a new fairy in town—the flamboyant Consuela—bought on a family holiday in Valencia. Chaos erupts on Christmas Eve as the fairies fight for position at the top of the tree. It looks as though Christmas will be ruined. It’s more important than ever this year, because for Beth and her mother, the tree is more than an ornament. It holds memories of happier times and of people they love. Can the ornaments learn to work together in time to make Beth’s wish to see her mother smile again come true?

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Sep 29, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546298649

J. D. Thomas

J.D Thomas lives in Oxfordshire, England. The idea of The Fight Before Christmas began as a short, animated, film during the course of completing her Masters in screen-writing at the Royal Holloway University of London. Although Screen-writing is her usual medium, when she met Hannah, on the Master’s course, and saw what a talented illustrator she was, the idea of a collaboration on this book was born. Hannah Maryse Robinson is a filmmaker, writer and illustrator based in Berlin, Germany. When she’s not developing film and TV scripts, she's busy doodling weird and wonderful worlds for children’s books and graphic novels.

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Original Art by Hannah Maryse Robinson

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Published by AuthorHouse 12/03/2018

ISBN: 978-1-5462-9863-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-9864-9 (e)

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DEDICATION

With gratitude to Paul and Aliona Thomas for their unfailing belief in me and in this story.

And a big thank you to Roxaneh Horswell who took the time to look through the manuscript and correct some of my more obvious errors. Any that remain are entirely down to me.

J.D.Thomas

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

CHAPTER 1

The orange glow of street lights shone in through the window of a cosy living room. No-one, it seemed, had remembered to draw the curtains.

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There was an advent calendar on the wall. All the windows had been opened right up to number 20 and there were four left to go.

An old dog snored softly in his bed in the corner. His paws were twitching because he was dreaming of rabbits. Next to the window was a Christmas tree.

It wasn’t the best Christmas tree ever. Half the needles had fallen off and it stood rather crookedly in its pot. In fact, it was so crooked that a piece of string had