Audio Books : Childrens : Other quality : English
Jeremy Strong - The Battle for Christmas (unabridged) - Read by Paul Chequer


Source CD
Duration approx 2:10 hours
FhG MPEG 1 Layer III 48 Kbps CBR
44100Hz, 16-bit, Mono


The book

When Ellie puts on her new pyjamas, strange things start to happen. She and her little brother, Max, are whisked off to the Christmas Shop where a battle is raging between a valiant troop of toys and the scaaaarry Christmas Tree Fairy and her army of angels. Can Ellie and Max save Christmas for the world – or will they be arrested for being mince spies?


The author

Jeremy Strong (born November 18, 1949) is a children's author. He has published 77 children's novels. After an eventful childhood Strong left school in 1968 and studied English at York University. He held various vacation jobs, including the infamous bakery where he put the jam in doughnuts. After university he became a junior school teacher and also began his writing career. He left teaching in 1991 and has been writing full time ever since. He visits schools and festivals world wide. His story, THERE'S A VIKING IN MY BED was made into a BBC Children's TV series. A number of his books have won awards.


The reader

Paul Chequer is an actor most famous for starring in the British drama As If as Jamie Collier on Channel 4 from 2001 to 2004 and the BBC Three drama Sinchronicity, as Nathan, in 2006.

He has later appeared as Eugene Jones in the British science fiction television series Torchwood in the episode Random Shoes, broadcast on 10 December 2006.