An amusing choice of material, though not the selection I would have made from ‘Christmas Crackers, 1970 – 1979” and “More Christmas Crackers, 1980 – 1989’; but there again, everyone is different.

Did Quentin Blake really choose his favourite ‘crackers’ or those which appealed to him to illustrate. I doubt we’ll ever know. I bought this book (secondhand) for the illustrations, not for the author’s content, and am not disappointed. Compared to “The Twelve Days of Christmas”; Quentin Blake’s illustrations in “The Illustrated…” are more cameo in style; but none the less utterly charming, apt, delightful, and funny.

A slight work. An interested reader would be better served getting one of the full Christmas Cracker collections. For the serious fan only.

Illustrations are an absolute delight!! Only few stories I found amusing

A short and amusing novelty.

Pure delight--wonderful snippets of this and that, with marvelous illustrations by the illustrator of the Roald Dahl books. A must-read for anyone who enjoys commonplace books.

When I was sent this book from the publisher I was excited about sharing it with my class of children, this however I found was not possible. The text is way too advanced for them and they didn't understand it, also some of the text was not suitable for them.

This is a book that have been compiled of John Norwich's 'Christmas Crackers' he sends to his family and friends at Christmas time, instead of a Christmas card. The book is made up of poetry and prose that he has found amusing.

The illustrations in the book are wonderful, to be honest I expected nothing less from Quentin Blake! They are humorous and fit well with the text.

Some of the quotes I found very funny and others not so, I do feel though that my expectations of the book did not follow with what I actually got. I was disappointed that I wouldn't be able to share it with my class as it quickly became apparent this was an adults book.

This is a nice 'coffee table' book as it can be flicked through and you can get a snip of enjoyment from it.

I would like to thank the publisher for sending me this copy.