Written by Carla, Lucía and  Alba from Málaga (Spain), Dionysis, Marti and Thodoris from Ioannina (Greece) and Toshawn, Aurély and Evan from Matoury (French Guaiana)  

Illustrated by Lola (Málaga)

THE BURNING CHRISTMAS TREE

A few days before Christmas, a family decided that they were going to spend the holidays in their grandparents’ house. The mum Mary, told her children, Susan and Noah:

-Go to take your things out of the suitcase, we’re going to have dinner with your 

grandparents, Peter and Carol. 

When they got to the house, the children started to play with a candle but they accidentally burned the Christmas tree… Their mum wasn’t angry. 

After that, she went to a shop and she bought another tree. She came home and the children saw her accompanied by a big christmas tree with beautiful spikes. Susan and Noah were so amazed to see their mum arrive with a new tree. 

Once at home, Noah, the oldest one, helped his mum to install the tree in the middle of the living room. Suddenly, someone knocked on the door. They opened it, it was their family. They decorated the tree drinking a hot Creole chocolate and “pain natté” (a Creole bread). Later, they all had a good Christmas dinner with a Christmas ham, red beans and rice, soup and for dessert a log. 

It was  an extraordinary Christmas!!

Written by Elsa, Lola and Marcos from    Málaga (Spain), Alexandra, Rania and Hossein  from Ioannina (Greece) and Romane, Sarah and Saneva

from Matoury (French Guaiana)  

Illustrated by Lola (Málaga)

SURPRISE!!

Some years ago, in December, Enith, a 12 year-old-girl, woke up very early on Christmas Day. She was very impatient for the night to come to meet her family and have a good time. When she got up, she felt nervous because she didn’ t find her family at her house. Then, she realized that her family left her because she was irregular, but her family wanted to make a surprise for her.

While she was crying she heard a big noise coming from the living room. It was a piece of wood from fireplace,  but when she went to living room  Enith saw nobody. She turned on the light and suddenly she saw a lot of decorations and heard a big: 

"SURPRISE !!!!!" 

It was her family waiting impatiently for her.

She was surprised and went to see them all gathered .

Written by Julia, Leyre and Rubén, from 

Málaga (Spain),  Vaggelis, Nikki and Natalia

from Ioannina (Greece) and Heurodline, Vanessa and Yamischka from Matoury (French Guaiana)  

Illustrated by Elsa (Málaga)

CHRISTMAS IS BACK!!

It was Christmas in the year 2052 when Spiros and Antonio were talking about the things they were doing to do on the holidays but they realized that the Christmas traditions were lost.  There was a world pandemic and they couldn’t go out to the street because the air was polluted. 

-Hey Spiros, What if we go back to the past to fix the world and have Xmas back?

-Ok, I think it is a good idea but, how do we do that?

-Well, I have an idea…

-We can build a time-machine.

-How can we make it?

-I have a friend who sells things for time-machines

-Let’s go to his shop.

After two hours with their flying car, they got there.

Once they arrived, they saw sad people with masks and nobody was rushing to the shops to buy the last things necessary for the preparation of the Christmas holidays. Where is the Christmas spirit hidden? 

Suddenly, Spiros had an idea. They went to the town hall square, where people usually sang “chanté nwel”, traditional French Guianese Christmas carols and started to sing

They were about to give up when suddenly a white light appeared and everything lit up. People went out and started eating and singing together. 

The Christmas spirit was back!

Written by Hugo, Máximo and Álvaro from Málaga (Spain), Irene, Hassan and Sotiris  from Ioannina (Greece) and Dorian, Leyton-Oneyl and Loan from Matoury (French Guaiana)  

Illustrated by Elsa (Málaga) 

THE LETTER

One day, a long time ago,  two twins were born.Their mother couldn’t afford to have them so she gave one of them, Raúl for adoption. His adopt father was rich.  The other twin, Luis was poor living and stayed with his mom. The twins were very different; Raúl was arrogant and a spoiled boy and he values what he had and Juan was good at heart. 

But on Christmas they got a letter that told them to go to a place,  to go to the central square. When they arrived there they found a new letter that told them to go to specific place to so they could find their biological mother. When they arrived there..