Category:Father Christmas; the Children's Annual

Title: Father Christmas: the Children’s Annual

Editor: Not Listed

Publisher: Alfred Gibbons

Overview: Father Christmas: the Children’s Annual was intended for a child readership. It would have been published and put into circulation around the Christmas Season. Each issue of the journal includes only one short story for children. These short stories also include elaborate illustrations that help keep a child’s attention. The stories are rarely Christmas stories despite the title of the journal. Instead, they are on varying topics. However, the advertisements in the Journal must have been intended for adults as they advertise such things as jewelry, umbrellas, and food. Perhaps these advertisements were designed to catch the attention of parents buying the journal for their children.

Submitted by: Askew, Amy: section 1, Fall 2007