The Christmas of Adventure
©2015 June E.Philip, Dinah, Jack and Lucy-Ann are excited at the prospect of spending their first Christmas together, but by Christmas Eve all their plans lie in ruins. Things get even worse when a severe snowstorm brings the country to a standstill and leaves Bill snowbound, hundreds of miles away. Forced to fend for themselves in Bill's remote moorland cottage, rumours abound of a strange and terrifying creature lurking in the woods nearby... and with a ruthless thief on the loose, striking at night and stealing birds from the local Sanctuary, the scene is set for a frightening and perilous adventure. Can they stop the thief before it's too late? Or will Kiki be the robber's next victim?
- 'Everything's going to be just perfect!'
- 'Bother! Christmas is completely ruined!'
- 'Really, can things get any worse!'
- 'This is the start of our next adventure!'
- 'Where on earth is Bill?'
- 'My goodness, what a gloomy place!'
- 'Nobody can ring us, and we can't ring anybody else...'
- 'Until then, we're on our own.'
- 'How frightfully wicked!'
- 'Them woods is no place for a bunch of children.'
- 'Not someone, something!'
- 'I know there was something there, and I'm going to prove it.'
- 'Fair broke his heart, it did, when those birds were taken.'
- 'I'm worried that she might just pine away and die.'
- 'Looks like I'm back just in the nick of time.'
- 'Oh no, the footprints are melting!'
- 'Shhhhhhhhhh! Or it will hear us!'
- 'Let us in, quick, it's after us!'
- 'I don't claim to have seen it – I did see it!'
- 'Now you'll have to eat your words, Philip Mannering.'
- 'You children have got some explaining to do, and no mistake.'
- 'I feel like a real detective!'
- 'Surely this gigantic fingerprint proves something?'
- 'A midnight stake out at the sanctuary – how thrilling!'
- 'Let's creep out and look for fingerprints.'
- 'Oh Bill, what if we're too late!'
- 'Don't ever ask me to visit Mrs Grouch again!'
- 'Anyone who tried would be cut to shreds!'
- 'Atishoo!'
- 'We can't be expected to sit on our hands all day, just because Dinah has a cold.'
- 'They're mine now, and I won't part with 'em.'
- '...a little bit of snow and mud won't hurt.'
- 'I know who the Midnight Man is!'
- '...now it's time for a taste of your own medicine.'
- '...now you're going to find out what it feels like to be a prisoner!'
- 'You simply never know!'