Advent Calendar – 8th December
17 days to go!
Valen-tree-na!
Valentina gets in to the festive spirit by decorating her rather unusual Christmas tree!
Christmas Book of the Day
Doctor Who: The Twelve Doctors of Christmas
Inside this festive book of Doctor Who stories, you'll find timey-wimey mysteries, travels in the TARDIS, monster-chasing excitement and plenty of Christmas magic. Find out what happens when the third Doctor meets Jackie Tyler, the seventh Doctor and Ace encounter an alien at Macy's department store and the Ninth Doctor tries to get rose a red bicycle for Christmas.
With stories by Jacqueline Rayner, Colin Brake, Richard Dungworth, Mike Tucker, Gary Russell and Scott Handcock, plus twelve original illustrations by artists including the award-winning Rob Biddulph. (Description from Amazon.co.uk)
This book is available to borrow from the Library via the online request form
Christmas Word of the Day
Sastruga

Did you know?
Tangerines...
The tradition of putting tangerines in stockings comes from 12th-century French nuns who left socks full of fruit, nuts and tangerines at the houses of the poor.