Diary of a christmas elf, p.6
Diary of a Christmas Elf,
p.6
I lay still, listening in the darkness. After what felt like the longest time, I decided it was safe enough to half-open one eye. My bedside clock showed a quarter to twelve. I had never, ever been awake that late before, and I wondered for a moment if, when it struck midnight, I would be turned to stone, like a child in a fairy tale.
I pulled back the covers, swung my feet down on to the rug and tiptoed to the window. Outside, the window ledge was covered in snow. The moon was thin but bright, and in our neighbour’s garden a fox picked its way across the white lawn. Above me, the blue-black sky was scattered with stars and little wisps of cloud. Nothing moved. No shooting stars, no satellites, not even a trundling planet. And definitely no reindeer-drawn sleigh.
I slunk back into bed. Using both pillows, together with one of the cushions from the chair, I made a sort of bed-throne, so that I could sit up and watch the open sky. Whatever happened, I wasn’t going to sleep. I was going to wait until Father Christmas came.
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The Night I Met Father Christmas
Ben Miller
About the Author
Author photo © Faye Thomas
Ben Miller is the bestselling author of magical stories for all the family: The Night I Met Father Christmas, The Boy Who Made the World Disappear, The Day I Fell Into a Fairytale, How I Became a Dog Called Midnight and Diary of a Christmas Elf.
He is an actor, director and comedian, best-known for the Armstrong and Miller sketch show, the Johnny English and Paddington films, BBC’s Death in Paradise and recent Netflix smash, Bridgerton.
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More magical adventures from Ben Miller:
The Night I Met Father Christmas
The Boy Who Made the World Disappear
The Day I Fell into A Fairytale
How I Became a Dog Called Midnight
First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Text copyright © Passion Projects Limited 2021
Illustrations copyright © Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
Ben Miller, Diary of a Christmas Elf
