Santa Is Coming To Colchester. A review of the children's Christmas book written by Steve Smallman

I must confess to being a little bit keen when it comes to books, films and TV programmes that feature Colchester, so I was always going to get a bit excited at the discovery of children's Christmas book "Santa Is Coming To Colchester" by Steve Smallman.

As a Mum of two young children aged three and six, I really wanted this book to be good.  I was actually a little bit nervous as I sat down to read it to them, I wanted to like it that much!  I have read personalised stories before and my fear was that it would be just an ordinary Santa story with the word "Colchester" fitted in every now and then. 

But no, I definitely wasn't disappointed!  This is a very sweet story about what happens to Santa when he visits Colchester, with lots of references to local areas and towns he passes on his way here.  

I don't want to give too much of the story away, as that would spoil it, but some of my favourite parts are when Santa gets lost in a blizzard, but is guided into Colchester by the sound of the bells of St Peter's Church and then gets stuck at the top of the Town Hall!

The book is beautifully illustrated by Robert Dunn and features Jumbo, the Town Hall, Colchester Castle, the Red Lion Hotel, Firstsite, St Peter's Church plus more Colchester landmarks within the illustrations.

We all really enjoyed Santa Is Coming To Colchester and no doubt wil be reading it again and again and again!

Santa Is Coming To Colchester is part of the Hometown World Series and is available to buy from Amazon.



I have also listed some of my other favourite Colchester books in the About Colchester section of www.yourcolchester.co.uk