Name: When Santa Fell to Earth
ISBN: 9780439782043

Cornelia Funke

Paul Howard

Oliver Latsch

With Gerold Geronimus Goblynch working hard to ruin Christmas, Santa looks to Charlotte and Ben for assistance in keeping tabs on Gerold and his Nutcracker villains while he devises a plan to end this anti-gift-giver's moneymaking scheme.

When Santa Fell to Earth

Sally

When I was about 7 years old my mum read this book to me. Since then it is one of my all time favorites for the christmas time.

Mischievous reindeer Twinklestar has bolted - leaving real-life Santa Claus Niklas to fall from the sky in his Christmas caravan| Luckily he crash-lands in a friendly neighbourhood, where two children come to his rescue. But he's still in terrible danger. For on his trail are Gerold Goblynch and his bad Santas from Yule Land, who will stop at nothing to steal Christmas| A big-hearted story of two children's adventures to save the last real Santa on earth.

Jeni Enjaian

At first I didn't think I was going to like this audiobook as much as I eventually did. Cornelia Funke herself narrated this audiobook and her German accent and struggles (slight) with the English language were a bit off putting at first but after a while I grew accustomed to it and appropriately (I think) pictured all the characters as German. (It is, after all, a story about Santa Claus.)

The story was a cute, little fairy tale with endearing characters and a believable plot. As usual, Ms. Funke used her wordsmith skill adeptly to create beautiful images with little effort.

I enjoyed this book and give it a strong recommendation.