Santa Claws: A Dark Tale of ChristmasWill Christmas ever be the same again? Gabriela Harding’s debut children’s novel, Santa Claws, is set in the London suburbs and the wilderness of the High Arctic. It is a Christmas adventure narrated by Honey, who presents readers with festive terrors and an evil Santa. It’s Christmas Eve and Honey is home alone. Well, alone if she doesn’t count the boring company of her little brother, Teddy, and her grandmother, who is a little too fond of sherry. She doesn’t think Christmas can get any worse. But when Honey and Teddy are brutally kidnapped from their own home, this festive season soon becomes the worst Christmas ever... After waking up in a freezing land of horrors, they are forced into hard labour in a factory of nasty toys amidst evil dwarves and the evil Santa Claws. Honey and her brother fear for their lives in a world of child-eating dogs, murderous chefs and secret passages dripping with all things icky. Worse still, Santa Claws turns out to be a cannibal with a very special dish in mind for the New Year’s celebrations: his own brother, the real Santa Claus. Can Honey and Teddy save Santa from the cooking pot and free themselves from a life of whip-cracking dwarves and slave labour? Santa Claws is aimed at children between 11-14 who enjoy mystery and fantasy fiction with traces of dark humour. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 13 |
Section 3 | 31 |
Section 4 | 38 |
Section 5 | 55 |
Section 6 | 78 |
Section 7 | 90 |
Section 8 | 97 |
Section 23 | 258 |
Section 24 | 263 |
Section 25 | 270 |
Section 26 | 274 |
Section 27 | 285 |
Section 28 | 289 |
Section 29 | 293 |
Section 30 | 302 |
Section 9 | 121 |
Section 10 | 132 |
Section 11 | 137 |
Section 12 | 145 |
Section 13 | 160 |
Section 14 | 175 |
Section 15 | 188 |
Section 16 | 197 |
Section 17 | 208 |
Section 18 | 214 |
Section 19 | 219 |
Section 20 | 231 |
Section 21 | 237 |
Section 22 | 247 |
Section 31 | 309 |
Section 32 | 313 |
Section 33 | 315 |
Section 34 | 325 |
Section 35 | 330 |
Section 36 | 338 |
Section 37 | 347 |
Section 38 | 359 |
Section 39 | 367 |
Section 40 | 381 |
Section 41 | 398 |
Section 42 | 411 |
Section 43 | 429 |
Common terms and phrases
Alfrid Anaconda anyway Black Russian blinked blood bottle breath Brennivín brother cake cat flap chef Chess Cottage Christmas Claus cold cranberry sauce Dad's dark dead dogs doll door dwarf dwarves eggs Ellesmere Island Erasmus Eton mess everything eyes face factory fingers fish floor Fridrik garrott Georgie girl glass going Grandfather Flaubert Grandma Florence Greg grinned hair hand head heard Hinrik Honey and Teddy Honey felt Honey knew Honey thought Honey's igloo inside Inuit iPhone killed kitchen knife laughed light looked Matryoshka doll meat Miss White mother mouth Mum's neck Nenets never night Oskar popped pulled Qaanaaq Raymond realised reindeer remember Ribena Rong Santa Claws Santaville Savissivik screamed shadow shark sighed skin smell smiled Snĉdis snapped snow someone sound stared stop Teddy's teeth tell thing took tree turned voice walked wall walrus watched Watsinak whispered window