Eight-year-old Jessica Atkins wants a monster for Christmas. Not a big, mean monster; more of a friendly little one to play with when she comes home from school, and maybe scare away the mice who live in her big old London house. But the old housekeeper, Mrs. Murgatroyd, warns her against wishing f
The Christmas Thingy: ss
โ Scribed by F. Paul Wilson
- Publisher
- Imagination Fully Dilated Publishing;Cemetery Dance Publications
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1452445540
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โฆ Synopsis
Best selling author F. Paul Wilson and award-winning illustrator Alan M. Clark offer up this fun children's Christmas story about little Jessica, who wishes for a monster of her own for Christmas, and then gets more (and less) than she could have hoped for.
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