Personalised Christmas book: One present short

The parcels have been counted, and counted again, and there is exactly one missing. With a day to go, that means one child somewhere gets nothing.

Your child and Pip the elf go back through the whole workshop looking for it: under the wrapping tables, behind the sleigh, into the corner where the paper offcuts pile up. The answer, when they find it, is both very silly and completely logical.

A search story with a soft landing. Nobody stole anything and nobody is in trouble; something was simply put somewhere sensible by someone in a hurry.