For children aged 2 to 6
Nova is the youngest reindeer and tonight is her first flight. She walks to the edge of the roof, looks down once, and stops moving altogether.
Nobody can talk her round. Not the older reindeer, not Father Christmas, not the elves who have a schedule to keep. Then your child sits down next to her, does not say anything clever, and simply stays there until Nova is ready.
This is the softest story in the Christmas set. It is about being frightened of something everyone else finds easy, and about the difference it makes when somebody waits with you instead of pushing.
No. Nothing bad happens to Nova. The tension is entirely about whether she will dare, and she does, in her own time.
Roughly 2 to 6. It is the gentlest story in our Christmas set and works well as a bedtime read in December.
That is exactly who it was written for. Nova is not talked out of being afraid and nobody calls her silly. She is given company and time, and that turns out to be enough.
Your child, Nova the young reindeer, Father Christmas and Pip the elf. You can add more names if you want other children in the story.