The twelve terrors of Christmas

The weather has started to turn here in the UK, it is June and people are starting to put the heating back on so it must be nearly Christmas, right?

This book is wonderful, it captures all the cynicism that anybody might have about christmas, like Santa being as scary as a character from a Stephen King novel. Those creepy little elves willing to work in dire conditions in one of the coldest places on Earth, what is their game? Mt favourite part is the ending about The Carols:

What were our favourites?
Tum-de-tum-tum,
angels on high,
something something,
sky.

I love this book, something that needs to be read every year as the family sits around the remains of a burning christmas tree.