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Something Magic in the Night
The cookies are baked, the shopping done. The tree is up, the balls are hung. There are cards, and sweets and baubles bright. Everything's ready for Christmas night. It's Christmas Eve! Follow Dottie-small as she discovers the magic of Christmas in this timeless, enchanting picture book.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published September 27, 2012
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Dyan Sheldon
93 books196 followersDyan Sheldon is the author of many novels for young adult readers, including the #1 New York Times bestseller CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN, which was made into a major motion picture. American by birth, she lives in North London.
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November 28, 2012
This is sort of a rendition of the Christmas Eve story. This would be a great activity to do with Kindergarten and sequence the different settings in the story. The little girl in the story is dreaming so you could have the kids use their imagination with you and they could create their own Christmas story. It is a cute book so parents could read this to them as well. This whole book is one big poem so you could introduce poetry along with having them recognize the rhyming words.
October 30, 2024
Something Magic in the Night
by Dyan Sheldon Rosie Reeve (Illustrations)
A picture book about the silence of Christmas eve
by Dyan Sheldon Rosie Reeve (Illustrations)
A picture book about the silence of Christmas eve
January 2, 2020
Something Magic in the Night is a lovely story about a girl called Dottie Sue who realises and goes to discover what the magic feeling is on Christmas Eve.
This is a very simple story that goes through all of what we see around us on Christmas Eve but it is very effective. We found it to be very calming for the children with the gentle story and gorgeous illustrations which really show the magic of a Christmas evening. It is a great way to get children talking about Christmas and what they think Dottie Sue is looking to find, most of the children thought it would be Santa she was hoping to find!
Dottie Sue is a lovely character to follow through the book as she has a calming effect on the book but is still fun and inquisitive. She is the only character we see which I like as it allows the children to focus on the message of the book which is how magical the festivities are.
This is a beautiful story which would be the perfect book to read before bed on Christmas Eve. We found it magical, fun and calming for the children.
This is a very simple story that goes through all of what we see around us on Christmas Eve but it is very effective. We found it to be very calming for the children with the gentle story and gorgeous illustrations which really show the magic of a Christmas evening. It is a great way to get children talking about Christmas and what they think Dottie Sue is looking to find, most of the children thought it would be Santa she was hoping to find!
Dottie Sue is a lovely character to follow through the book as she has a calming effect on the book but is still fun and inquisitive. She is the only character we see which I like as it allows the children to focus on the message of the book which is how magical the festivities are.
This is a beautiful story which would be the perfect book to read before bed on Christmas Eve. We found it magical, fun and calming for the children.
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