A Christmas Adventure (Tumtum and Nutmeg #4) by Emily Bearn

A Christmas Adventure (Tumtum and Nutmeg #4) Reviews

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  R. C.

  I found this to be a short, fun and sweet chapter book to share with the 3 - 8-year-old set on our long, candlelit winter solstice evening. As always, Emily Bearn mixes up just the right amount of intense action-adventure scariness to put little kids on the edge of their seat without upsetting them, and she cushions this drama in a world of good-hearted, hardworking, wise little mice.
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  Libby Hill

  My kids have listened to this twice during the holiday season. The audiobook is the way to go! The reader is fantastic with voices and accents. It’s such an engaging read.
  Tumtum and Nutmeg are mice anxious to ensure the human children they live with receive gifts from Father Christmas. They must face the Baron mouse to find the right gifts and quite the adventure ensues.
  A sweet story that shows not all is as it seems. Everyone deserves kindness at Christmas time.
  
  Great for 4 and up.
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  Jessica

  This was one of the few holiday reads I read for 2017. It was everything I needed at the time, a bit of magic and whimsy. I had just finished rereading Big Little Lies,and while overall it ends on a good note, I is a bit heartbreaking.
  
  I love that Nutmeg is such a clever character and that Tumtum is so supportive. Together they are perfectly charming.
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  Marissa

  This was a cute, easy Christmas read aloud. It was simple enough for Elaina to follow easily, and Evelyn read ahead and finished after we were only a couple chapters in.
  
  The story follows husband and wife mice, Tumtum and Nutmeg, as they try to help the human children in the home they live in have a Merry Christmas.
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  Jenny

  I had read this Tumtum and Nutmeg story with E years ago, but this was the first introduction to the two mice for L. It's an absurd little adventure (complete with giant mechanical cats, a menacing mouse with glitter on his claws, and a tiny mouse army bearing needles for swords) but L loved every bit.
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  Danada

  Rollicking good fun! Another fantastic adventure with Tumtum, Nutmeg, General Marchmouse and other familiar friends. Features a new villain and eventually new friend Baron Toymouse! Grab some strawberry cremes and enjoy! The books in this series all make great read-alouds.
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  Sara Hollar

  Fun little story. This would be a great series to read aloud with young children. It was a little too quick and simplistic for us now, but my 6 year old loved it. He quickly decided to pick it up and re-read it himself, so I'd say it was great for him!
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  Sophie Crane

  Tumtum and Nutmeg are a lovely pair of mice and their adventures are always fun to read at bedtime. The vocabulary is rich and the story telling is both lively and interesting. It makes a refreshing change from endless Fairy books or tales of ponies, as opposed to pony tails!
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  Henry Douthwaite

  Great book. My 5 year old loved it.
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  Helen Purdon

  A wonderful addition to our Advent with books. The Narrator makes the story delightful. TumTum and Nutmeg are a sweet couple and their friends make the adventure so exciting.
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  Kristyn

  Read-aloud. Boys, ages 11, 9, 6.
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  Rachel Dorminy

  We listened to the audiobook. Nutmeg and TumTum’s stories are always adventurous. How they care for the human children is always fun to see.
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  Hayley (hayleys.little.library)

  ‘Tumtum and Nutmeg’s Christmas Adventure’ by Emily Bearn.🎄Tumtum and Nutmeg books were also a huge part of my childhood so I really loved this book 🥰
  
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  Becky

  7/10 - enjoyable but I don’t think I’d have to reread.
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  Nancy

  As a child, I love stories about dolls, fairies, and brownies, who came to live at night, when children were sleeping. This story has a family of mice, who are making preparations for Christmas. They over hear the two children in the house, talking about Christmas, and what they wanted Father Christmas to leave them. Father Christmas hadn't come the previous year, because their father had bricked up the fireplace, so they wouldn't get cold. The mice feel they can't enjoy Christmas, when the children won't be getting any gifts. They decided to go to the big mansion, where the Baron Mouse rules over his toy nursery. They have a big adventure with the baron, who fought them. With reinforcements, they defeated the baron, and found Father Christmas had left Lucy and Arthur's gifts in the nursery last year, when he had to wait there until the storm let up. This is a cute British chilren's story.
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  Lin Let

  Finished this quickly, a nice childhood read with good illustrations. The first book is still my favourite
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  Amy

  Short and cute. Full review here:
  http://www.sunlitpages.com/2016/12/th...
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  Katy Lovejoy

  I've always loved this story since the first time I read it
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  Leah

  Delightful story for the whole family.
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  Megan (ReadingRover)

  Sweet little book about two mice trying to get presents for the children in the house the live in from an old curmudgeon of a mouse toy maker. Fun Christmas adventure story. Delightfully narrated!