First published in 1935, The Box of Delights is full of fantasy and adventures, almost as if every known children's story had been combined in one. In the adventure-laden Christmas story, Kay Harker returns from boarding school for the holidays and becomes involved in a struggle with a wizard and witch who wish to possess the box that has been engrusted to Kay. There's space travel and time travel and evil villains and holiday sentiments and adventures.

This uniquely imaginative tale would be a delight for fans of old-fashioned, English Literature and could be compared to the likes of A Christmas Carol and the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.