Age range: 3-5
Illustrated by Freya Hartas
Hardback; 203 x 178 mm; 16pp
Published July 2025
A Fold-Out Christmas Village and Advent Calendar!
Welcome friend to Christmas Street.
Your timing's oh so good.
Our Christmas countdown has begun –
so let's explore the wood...
Count down to Christmas with Bear and his woodland friends in this spectacular advent calendar book – with surprises hidden under 24 doors, festive activities to enjoy as a family and a magical fold-out frieze to display.
Every day of December brings a delightful door to open, with fun, read-aloud rhyming text and gorgeous illustrations hidden behind 24 flaps. With fun, family-friendly activities on the reverse, including:
- Tell a Christmas Story with Papa Bear
- Write a Letter to Santa with Professor Owl
- Bake Carrot Oat Bars for Rudolph with Mama Fox
- Build a Snowdeer with the Deer Family
- Decorate a Gingerbread Burrow with Bunny
- Pick the Perfect Tree with Bear
- Make Gift Wrap with the Squirrel Family
With a gorgeous gold foil case and red ribbon tie that makes this a perfect gift for Christmas.
FREYA HARTAS is a UK based artist specialising in children's books, and the illustrator of the internationally bestselling Slow Down and Brown Bear Wood series. She graduated from Falmouth University with a first-class honours in BA Illustration in 2014. Freya loves to conjure up humorous characters, animals and monsters, creating the most fantastical worlds for them to inhabit and get lost in.
