The Box of Delights

Author: John Masefield

Summary: Kip coming home for the Christmas holidays, and on the train discovers a plot to stop the Christmas festival from happening. receiving a gift from a kind old man "the box of delights" Kip must keep the box safe hidden from the wolves that wants the power of the box for their own evil purposes.

Recommendation: Yes, if you have read books like the Blackhearts In Battersea or Wolves Of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken or the Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper you will like this book. Box of delights proceeds these magical good versus evil books by quite a few years, written in 1935 and is quite well written. Magic, Christmas, mystical animals,travel back in time, walk with a mouse, or fly with butterflies, it all in this book.

Hearts: 5