A fantastic series for 5+ readers combining magic and football, by superstar footballer Frank Lampard. Frankie and his team love playing football. There's always time for a game - even at Christmas!
Frankie and his friends are spending Christmas in Austria with his pen pal Heidi. He is excited to learn how to ski, even if it's not quite the same as playing football. Late on Christmas Eve they discover a lost elf who needs help. Frankie's team will need to use all their skills to get the elf back to his world, and return in time for Christmas!
Read aloud to my son. He loves these Frankie books, he loves football and Frank Lampard is his all time hero (apart from me obviously). However this series is really pretty awful and I have to ham it up massively when reading aloud to overcome the boredom. The stories are unimaginative, the characters are flat and the black and white anime style illustrations uninspiring. In addition the binding is poor quality yet the books are not cheap to buy. Suitable for football mad, Frank Lampard adoring kids. May help to get a football mad child into reading.