Stay inside to avoid the clatter and rumble of Bonfire Night, and stir up the Christmas pudding with My Naughty Little Sister. Take Amabelle Fortescue up on the offer of a bedroom in Mulberrie Farm, and visit the neighbours for a slice of Christmas Pudding. Drink a cup of Christmas punch at Miss Greythorne’s with Will and his siblings, despite the knowledge that (elsewhere) The Dark is Rising. Discover How Winston Delivered Christmas and treat it as your very own advent calendar. Join Laura Morland, and all her endlessly diverting neighbours, in High Rising. Come round for An Almost Perfect Christmas with Nina and her family. Sit down to a feast with the Whos, young and old, and attempt to work out How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Join The Jolly Christmas Postman on his rounds through the village. Spend Thanksgiving with Meg and Calvin in A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Thrust open The Box of Delights on a dark, wintry night. Head off on an adventure with Bonnie and Sylvia as they’re pursued by The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Greet A Christmas Carol’s Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, as they pay their visits to Ebenezer Scrooge. Make time for reading The Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve, and go off to bed with a head full of sugarplums, and the sound of reindeers’ hooves on the roof. Decorate The Fir Tree with the Moomins, and drink a cup of delicious eggnog.