Merry Christmas, Baked Potato: A Brand-New Festive Must-Read for Reluctant Readers

by Matt Lucas, Scott Coello (Illustrator)

The brand-new and brilliantly funny Christmas picture book from multi-award-winning actor and comedian MATT LUCAS – star of The Great British Bake Off and creator of Thank You, Baked Potato, an official UK download chart-topper and Amazon bestseller!

If you look high up in the sky(I’m talking higher than a parrot)You’ll see a root veg flying by(and no, I do not mean a carrot) …

Join Santa Baked Potato as he makes Christmas wishes come true (and delivers plenty of presents!) in this fun-filled, festive follow-up to the chart-topping Thank You, Baked Potato.

Accompanied by a spud-tacular Christmas song, composed and performed by Matt!

‘Entertaining and educational’ – Independent on Thank You, Baked Potato

32 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 29, 2020

Reviews

[Tim Roast · Rating 4 out of 5]

Matt Lucas is known for his comedy acting such as in Little Britain and, more recently, for his presenting in Great British Bake Off. This book is a silly (another Amazon reviewer said strange) story about a potato Santa and how he is well loved. There is a charity music single out in 2020 that has Matt Lucas singing the words of this book, and the music video is worth watching online if you want to know what this book is like in its entirety. Plus watching that when you have the book means you can sing along (or at least read along). That for me is worth four stars, but if it were the book on it's own then maybe it would have been less because of the strangeness of the story for the target audience.

[Diana Jaques · Rating 3 out of 5]

Merry Christmas Baked Potato essentially transforms the Santa we know into a baked potato. This comical switch around is what made me purchase the book. A couple of years ago I bought this book for my little brother who is obsessed with potatoes and he laughed quite a bit when he unwrapped it on Christmas day.

This book is both funny and chaotic as we see Baked Potato take to the sky on Christmas Eve delivering presents to all of the little children as everyone expresses their love for the jolly fellow in the sky. Not Santa of course, but Baked Potato.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic sequel to the spring time, lockdown story “Thank You, Baked Potato” this festive tale is more substantial and is very fun to read/sing aloud with my toddler. The song is catchy but even if you don’t know the tune you can read it aloud and enjoy!

[Louise Bath · Rating 4 out of 5]

Silly and charming. Adorable potatoes, too! Enjoyed very much. 😊