Papa Panov’s Special Day

It is Christmas Day, and Papa Panov, the lonely old shoemaker, is expecting a special visitor. Things do not turn out at all as he thought … but by the end of the day the sparkle is back behind his little round spectacles.

Leo Tolstoy adapted this delightful children’s story from the French original and included it in his ‘Complete Works’.

Mig Holder’s retelling, and the pictures by Nathalie Vilain, bring out all its freshness and charm for a new generations of readers.

This illustrated edition was first published under the title ‘Le Père Martin’ in 1950.