I am Wishing Every Minute for Christmas

Written and illustrated : Lauren Child milkmonitor.me

Published: Simon & Schuster 2025

ISBN 978-1-3985-4279-2 Part of Charlie and Lola series

Ages: 4+ Pages: 40 Category: Picture book, fiction

Themes: Christmas, time, holidays, imagination, home

When do you start wishing every minute for Christmas?

Cover image by Lauren Child, Published by Simon & Schuster, 9 October 2025,

About the book:

A completely NEW and original picture book to celebrate 25 years of the iconic Charlie and Lola!

I have this little sister Lola. She is small and very funny.

If Lola even thinks about Christmas she can't sit still on her chair.

If you BREATHE the word Christmas she hops up and down.

If you say, "Christmas is coming," she just runs round and round.

Lola is wishing every minute for Christmas, but it is a long way away and too far to wait. Can her brother Charlie think of some clever ways to make the time pass more quickly?

What I liked:

This Christmas story is about managing anxiety and finding ways of enjoying the wait. Lola starts counting the days for Christmas as early as September! Her brother Charlie tries to persuade her by offering a lot of pre-Christmas activities and crafts. He even suggests an original advent calendar to make the wait shorter. Lola, with her incredible imagination, turns every suggestion into a new adorable idea.

Lauren Child brings her famous characters, Charlie & Lola to life in a new Christmas story. The multiple award-winning author delights children and adults once more with her distinctive illustration style, a combination of drawings and collage and the typography which flows through the pages with the same freedom as Lola's streams of thought.

The book is the perfect quickstart for Christmas countdown. Put imagination into action and create your own Christmas calendar with simple activites. I would include things like baking cookies, listening to music and dancing together, going for a walk to discover new places, watching Christmas movies, doing some arts & crafts, playing in the park and enjoying nature and decorating your place - why not a public place too?-

I hope you like the book and can share activities with your beloved ones while waiting for Christmas day!!

About the author:

Lauren Child is an award-winning artist and writer. She is the creator of many much-loved characters, including Clarice Bean, Charlie and Lola and Ruby Redfort, along with several stand-alone picture books

Lauren is a champion for the importance of illustration as an art form. She has been a trustee of the House of Illustration for ten years, and at the forefront of innovation, raising the profile of illustration as a sophisticated art form for all ages. She works with mixed media, has pioneered text as an integral part of illustration and collaborates with artists across different fields including music, film, and design. Lauren is a Foundling Museum Fellow and an UNESCO Artist for Peace and her work has always championed the importance of childhood.

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This book was my own purchase. The images on social media are my own.

© Paola Dell'Acqua, Un Viaje en Libro. 2025