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The Christmas Tree that Loved to Dance
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  • Published: 6 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405984980
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

The Christmas Tree that Loved to Dance

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Hardback
11 Nov 2025
EBook
6 Nov 2025
Audiobook
23 Oct 2025
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A charming, hopeful illustrated tale about one forgotten Christmas tree, from beloved writer and comedian Miranda Hart, featuring delightful illustrations from Lucy Claire Dunbar

In January, Christmas trees across the land are taken down, discarded and forgotten. But what if one Christmas tree wants a different fate . . .

This is a story about talking and dancing Christmas trees (yes, dancing!), a dog called Jessie who also talks, a woman called Joan who – less surprisingly, in that she is a human being – talks too, two strange men (and yes, they talk) and their truck (which doesn’t talk). There are also lots of lights, baubles and stars.

Can Joan and Jessie rescue the discarded January Christmas trees, or will their plans be thwarted by the two men and their truck?
  • Published: 6 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405984980
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
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About the authors

Lucy Dunbar

Lucy Dunbar is an illustrator and designer based in Oxfordshire who came to prominence by honouring the likes of The Queen and Matthew Perry with art drawn from behind, always leaving the story open for her viewers to interpret for themselves.

Having been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes from the age of two, Lucy temporarily lost her sight in her early twenties. After she’d regained it, she made a promise to herself to draw every day. From that commitment, came her hugely popular online success. She now has an established and fast-growing social media following with 559k followers on Instagram and has appeared on Radio 4's Saturday Live and Lorraine Kelly. Her first book The Book of Gifts was a Sunday Times bestseller.

portrait photo of Lucy Dunbar

Miranda Hart

Miranda Hart is a writer, comedian and actor. She is best known for her much-loved and multi-award-winning sitcom Miranda, as well as her BAFTA-nominated role of Chummy in Call the Midwife. Notable films include Spy alongside Melissa McCarthy, and playing Miss Bates in the recent adaption of Emma. Her first book, Is It Just Me?, was a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller, winning Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the Specsavers National Book Awards. Other books include Peggy & Me and the children’s novel The Girl With the Lost Smile. I Haven't Been Entirely Honest with You was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and was nominated for Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year at The British Book Awards 2025.

Instagram @realmirandahart

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