#BlogTour: The Christmas Play Rehearsal by Sue Wickstead @JayJayBus @rararesources #TheChristmasPlayRehearsal

Book Synopsis:

Children’s picture book for christmas.It is Christmas time, and the school has been getting ready to perform their Nativity play. With lines learnt and songs to be sung, it is time for the dress rehearsal. The teacher knows there might be a few problems to sort out, but at least they will know what to improve on or change along the way.

The Christmas Play Rehearsal is available in ebook and paperback now, purchase your copy here.

My Review:

The Christmas Play Rehearsal is a wonderful, funny book that is the perfect Christmas book for little kids.

Both my mum and me have enjoyed reading this book with my six year old who has found this book utterly hilarious.  He couldn’t stop laughing at the many things that keep going wrong. Being in the middle of Nativity play rehearsals himself I think he found the book very interesting and it lead to him telling us lots of stories about his own experiences. He was also very proud that he could read most of the book himself and took it into show and tell to share with his class!

The story is accompanied by some fantastic, bright drawings showing the children in their nativity outfits.  Both my children really liked them and I think they added a lot to the story.

My only slight problem with this book was that it was quite long which was fine for my six year old but meant that my three year old lost interest halfway through.   I’ve been unable to find out what age group this is aimed at but as the author is a primary school teacher I’m guessing it’s meant for older children than my daughter anyway.

This is the first book by this author that I have read and I’ll definitely be getting more of her books in the future.  It’s been hard to get my son interested in reading but he keeps asking for this book which just shows how much he enjoyed it.

Huge thanks to Rachel from Rachel’s Random resources for inviting me onto the blog tour and for our copy of this book.  If you’re looking for a great Christmas story to share with the kids then I highly recommend this book.

About The Author:

Sue Wickstead is a trained teacher and has written five children’s story books to date. The books have all received 5-star awards from ‘Readers Favourite’. She was initially involved in a playbus charity and left full time teaching to write the photographic history book about the playbus itself. This led to many questions from the children that she met asking what the playbus did and how was it different to any other ordinary bus. This led to telling stories and eventually the fictional tale was written. JJK261 was the real bus and gave the bus the name Jay-Jay. Sue has written three adventures for Jay-Jay the playbus, as well as Daisy Daydream the Nursery Rhyme bus. In addition she has written ‘A Spooky Tale’ for younger readers and is also based on real events from her teaching career. the new book ‘The Christmas Play Rehearsal’ is also based on the problems she encountered when producing the Christmas Play. Sue has visited many schools, both as a cover teacher and as an author. Including schools in Spain. The children love knowing where the inspiration for the stories come from and are fascinated to hear that the bus was in fact real. With both a factual and fictional background to her writing she is able to share her enthusiasm and has many more stories to follow. Each of her books have a factual link as well as a bus in them somewhere. this was particularly difficult to fit in with the Christmas Nativity story, but yes she did manage it.