Sprouts

Join a fantastic, futuristic and chaos-filledadventure where Christmas has snowballed and is celebrated every day! Perfect for fans of Sibéal Pounder’s Tinsel and Matt Haig's The Girl Who Saved Christmas,and for Christmas-obsessed children everywhere

'I absolutely ADORED it! A really funny, clever, brilliant play on all the Christmas tropes. It just has to be made into a movie!' Emma Carroll on TINSEL 'Very sparkly storytelling and a lovely portrayal of friendship' Hilary McKay on TINSEL 'Tinsel is Christmas spirit wrapped in a fun, feminist parcel' Lesley Parr on TINSEL *** Enter the future where it’s Christmas day … every day. Except, that is, on the Mince Pie Isles where a group of rebel witches live in secret, illegally celebrating just once a year and practising their sprout-based magic passed down through an old spell book from Guardian to Guardian. Gryla Garland is a young witch who thinks it might be quite nice to celebrate Christmas every day, just like everyone else. But when the hapless and accident-prone young witch is unexpectedly chosen as the next Guardian of the spell book, she discovers that 24/7 Christmas – governed by a tyrannical Santa – isn't all it's cracked up to be. Now she just has to think of a way to change it back …