When Santa Got Stuck in a Gum Tree

The best-selling Aussie Christmas book from Jackie Hosking and Nathaniel Eckstrom, now in board book format for the littlest Christmas kids!

It’s Christmas Eve but Santa is stuck in a gum tree! How will he deliver the presents?

Luckily, an enthusiastic cast of Aussie animals are up for the challenge. But despite their Christmas spirit, unsticking Santa is harder than they thought! Maybe they need a new plan …

About the Author

Jackie Hosking began writing for children after completing a creative writing course and her first children’s poem, "If I Were a Giant" was published by The School Magazine in 2005. Walker Books published her first picture book, The Croc and the Platypus, in 2014. It was shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards in 2015. Jackie wrote the book as a writing exercise to see if she could emulate Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat, with an Aussie twist. In 2019 she was awarded a May Gibbs Creative Time Fellowship where she worked on her writing in Canberra for a month. Jackie loves to write in rhyme and when she’s not writing in rhyme she loves to help others with their rhyme via her Rhyming Manuscript Editing Service or through her writing course, Metre Matters.

Nathaniel Eckstrom is an illustrator based in Sydney, Australia. He has worked on a number of children’s picture books including Stubborn Stanley, The Hole Idea, Roadtrip and The Dress-Box. DUCK!, written by Meg McKinlay, was his first book with Walker Books. His second is Ten Little Figs, written by Rhian Williams.