Christmas in fiction : Angel of Grasmere

Use these resources this Christmas time based on Chapter 6 of Angel of Grasmere.

Discover how young Tarn Fothergill celebrated Christmas Day 1940 with her family, farmer’s lad Peter, evacuee Eric, and Land girls Margaret and Kathleen.

And will the Angel of Grasmere perform a Christmas miracle?

Christmas Resources:

St Oswald’s Church Grasmere by James Innerdale

Film of Tom reading Chapter 6 from St Oswald’s church, this Christmas

Read chapter 6 here to share with the young people you work with or use the flip book below :

Christmas Craft Activity

Make a simple angel – try using hand prints or cut out for wings or paper plates or doilies. Decorate it by writing on it the christmas miracle you would wish for this year.

Or use these Paper Angels to cut out here

Christmas Blackout Poem Challenge here

Includes a how to guide, suggested extracts examples and a signed certificate.

Follow the story using the real Grasmere village trail map here – a special commemorative map with the key book locations through the village, beautifully illustrated by James Innerdale.

Angel of Grasmere Commemoration Special film

Dunkirk Anniversary – A Commemoration Special with Mr Dilly and Tom Palmer

Catch up now here

Join Tom Palmer speaking on location from the beaches of Dunkirk and the Grasmere Fells
Interview and conversation with Mr Dilly and Tom Palmer
Watch footage of the Dunkirk evacuation
Listen to pre-recorded interviews with some of the Dunkirk veterans

Book Trailer

For more Angel of Grasmere resources and to find about how Tom researched and wrote it click here.

More of my Christmas in Fiction

Resist

Arctic Star

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