From beloved authorKatherine Rundellcomes a clever, funny, and poignant picture book about a lonely little boy who wishes not to be alone on Christmas. A young boy’s Christmas Eve wish on a shooting star leads to an adventure with an ever-hungry rocking horse, an angel whose wings are molting, a robin who has forgotten how to sing, and a rusting tin drummer boy inKatherine Rundell’sclassic Christmas story, withEmily Sutton’sgorgeous paintings.°°°Katherine Rundellis the internationally bestselling author ofImpossible Creatures. Her other books for children includeRooftoppers,Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms,The Wolf Wilder,The Explorer, andThe Good Thieves. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, & London, & is currently a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. For adult readers, Rundell has writtenVanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered CreaturesandSuper-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. She was the recipient of the British Book Award for Book of the Year & Author of the Year. Her other adult book isWhy You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old & Wise. Rundell writes occasionally for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement & the New York Times.