Sam is VERY excited. It's Christmas Eve and Dad has set off into the forest to fetch a festive surprise. He promised to be back before the snow starts to fall but now it's night-time and there's no snow . . . and no sign of Dad.

Will Sam's special, homemade snowflake help Dad to find his way out of the forest and home in time for Christmas morning?

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2008 by Pan Macmillan .

Rosie Reeve has illustrated many picture books and young fiction, including HEY, I LOVE YOU, published by Macmillan. Gillian Shields was born and brought up in Yorkshire. She read english and Cambridge and then trained as an actress before teaching acting and becoming director of a London drama school. She now lives in the country, and teaches drama and English, part-time, in a local school