The Gruffalo and Friends Advent Calendar Book Collection (2022)

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Whoever came up with Lego advent calendars is now rich enough to build their own life-size spaceship. With a loop to hang it from a bed or door and 24 soft pockets to fill with sweets or little toys (not included), The White Company’s fluffy penguin is the only calendar on our list that you’d actually want to sleep with. Count down to Christmas with this advent calendar collection of twenty-four mini activity, song and rhyme books, based on the bestselling picture books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Given the huge interest in fidget toy calendars, you’d think premium toy brands might have entered the market but it’s still dominated by Chinese suppliers. Discover a new book every day in the lead up to Christmas with this exciting Cocomelon advent calendar!

In fact it might work best as a workplace advent calendar, with a treat each day for the whole company to share. You only have to look at the value of the products in some advent calendars to see why they sell out so quickly. With years of chocolate crafting experience, who wouldn’t love a Thorntons chocolate Christmas countdown… with a delicious chocolate hidden behind every door. The childish excitement of revealing a new chocolate every morning never really goes away, even when you’re over 30 and the treats include a cheeky tipple or two.

Inside you’ll find a selection of London Drys to zesty citrus gins, raspberry, Pink Pepper and Sloe as well as different flavoured Fever Tree tonics to match the gins.

If you can afford it, Diptyque’s selection of candles, perfumes and soaps will keep your loved one in heavenly scents for the best part of a year.The Fever Tree Gin and Tonic advent calendar is a pretty good midrange option, with 12 gins and 12 tonics inside. As the big day approaches, there are festive treats, including a retelling of Jingle Bells, with a QR code so you can sing along; and Charles Dickens' classic ghost story, A Christmas Carol, specially rewritten for little ones. Kurt Adler is the 70-year old Christmas ornament specialist and, while this 12-inch high wooden calendar is not exactly Antiques Roadshow-worthy, it should last years and look good on the mantelpiece.

With 24 awesome surprises inside, there's something for each December day leading up to the festive season, making this the perfect calendar treat. With twenty-four mini books collected together in a beautiful presentation case with tie ribbon, The Gruffalo and Friends Advent Calendar Book Collection is perfect for sharing together every day of advent. For a slightly more intellectually stimulating December, Julia Donaldson’s much-loved monster counts down to Christmas with a big hardback calendar containing 24 colouring, quizzing, drawing and activity mini-books based on The Gruffalo, Room On The Broom, The Snail and The Whale and others. Count down the days to Christmas with magical tales of princes and princesses, dragons and dinosaurs. Obviously the kids don’t know what six figures are in here – and half the fun is swapping their bits and bobs around to create new characters anyway.The full list is further down, but if you’re in a hurry, here’s a quick look at our top five: Which are the best advent calendars in 2023? Not all advent calendars have such dramatic cost-to-value ratios, but the basic principle is that you get more than you pay for. It’s the perfect way to make her December, or keep it hidden and drip feed the presents throughout the year. This one is better quality than the rest, the plastic all fully UKCA certified meaning everything is non-toxic.

Being endlessly personalisable, iced biscuits are a popular gift – but to keep 24 of them fresh, you really need a tin. Enjoy a magical tale every day in the run-up to Christmas, including adventures from: Mickey Mouse and friends, Winnie the Pooh, Toy Story, 101 Dalmatians, The Lion King, Luca and many, many more! Open the doors to reveal pop-up scenery, stickers and dancing characters that skate around the Music Box base as you count down to Christmas!If you can get your hands on one, you’ll be able to add the glow of victory to the youthful complexion afforded by its contents. We’ve picked the Lego Star Wars one but could equally recommend the Lego Harry Potter advent calendars, There are dozens in all, and Playmobil advent calendars now vie for kids’ attention too. You are looking at well over 20kg of biscuits, preserves, cakes, hot drinks, confectionery and prosecco in 24 drawers, standing almost two feet high. With twenty-four mini books collected together in a beautiful hardback presentation case with tie ribbon, The Gruffalo and Friends Advent Calendar Book Collection is perfect for sharing together every day of Advent.