Traditional Advent Calendar - Alison Gardiner Christmas Village Design - Paper Christmas Countdown Calendar - Large A3 29.7x42cm

This is a nicely drawn - cartoon style - and colourful Advent Calendar showing a traditional British village scene.It's made from good quality cardboard and is sturdy enough to use every year. The windows can also be opened and shut without damage too.It's very old fashioned in design with the items behind the pictures being fairly random but with traditional Christmas themes like toys, sweets etc.As you'd expect, December 24 is a double sized window with a larger picture inside.Non of the pictures are hiding actual sweets or chocolate so today's kids might be a little disappointed!For any one else - especially of a 'certain age' this is a lovely Advent Calendar and would make a nice gift to send someone!

I love Alison Gardiner advent calendars. They remind me of advent calendars I had as a child in the 1960s, long before it was expected that advent calendars meant first chocolate and then alcohol, beauty products, etc. No bah humbug from me, enjoy the other kind if that's your thing but I like the old traditional ones with a lovely picture every day up to Christmas Eve. Great fun!

Nice

I love these Advent Calendars. The pictures are lovely and they really brighten the room. The quality is great and they are reasonably sturdy. However, I do think that the price is a bit steep.

Lovely old school advent calendar

Really enjoying this advent calendar. Pricey but worth it - good quality, lovely big busy picture and the pictures behind the windows are varied and entertaining

Large calendar with lovely images. A little pricy for cardboard and print but the size did make it special.

I bought an Alison Gardiner advent calendar a few years ago for my 2 young sons, and they got so much enjoyment from it - it was a picture of a big country house and behind each window you could see something going on in the house. They couldn't wait to open each window. So I thought this year once again I would eschew the chocolate advent calendars and get another Alison Gardiner one. The trouble is, what you see behind the flaps of this one bears no relation to the main picture. For example a flap in a tree opens to show a wise king, and the front door of a house reveals a giant cracker! It is so random and my sons have been really disappointed in it. It's only December 9th and they've already lost interest except to see how ridiculous and random the things behind each flap are - today a flap in a choirboy's clock opened to show another wise king (half the size of the cracker - even the scale is random!). It's such a shame this is so poorly thought out, as the artwork on the main picture is lovely.