Supertato: We Wish You a Veggie Christmas!

By Author / Illustrator

Sue Hendra, Paul Linnet

Genre

Funny Stories

Age range(s)

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

ISBN

9781398532151

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

23-10-2025

Synopsis

It's night-time in the supermarket and Supertato and the veggies are feeling festive in Santa's Grotto . . .

But when the Evil Pea gets hold of a powerful shrinking machine and shrinks the veggies to the size of tiny Christmas baubles, will Christmas be CANCELLED?! Or will Santa's little helpers find a way to save the day? Find out in the brand-new, fabulously funny Christmassy adventure in this blockbusting series!

ReadingZone caught up with Sue Hendra to find out what inspired their hilarious superhero series!

Other Supertato adventures: Supertato; Supertato: Veggies Assemble; Supertato: Run, Veggies, Run; Supertato: Evil Pea Rules; Supertato: Veggies in the Valley of Doom; Supertato: Carnival Catastro-pea; Supertato: Bubbly Troubly; Supertato: Night of the Living Veg; Supertato: The Great Eggscape; Supertato presents Jack and the Beanstalk; Supertato: Mean Green Time Machine; Supertato: Eviltato vs Superpea; Supertato: Happy Birthday, Nitwit!

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Reviews

Maria

If you love Supertato and his friends, you are going to adore this new Christmas story - but watch out because Evil Pea is back and he is trying to ruin Christmas with his Size-o-riser and his evil plans!

Evil Pea is angry because he does not like Christmas and all its happiness as he watches Supertato and the veggies preparing for the festive season. With an evil plan and his new Size-o-riser, he shrinks them all and makes them into tiny baubles and sticks them high up on the Christmas tree so that he can get CHRISTMAS CANCELLED!!!!!!!!! Supertato and his veggie friends must find a way to escape from the tree and stop Evil Pea.

This new Supertato story by the talented duo Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet is a laugh-out-loud story for the Christmas season. This book was read to a class of six and seven-year-olds who are familiar with the Supertato stories, however this book can be read without having prior knowledge of these characters.

Supertato: We Wish You a Veggie Christmas! shows the power of evil and good in a fun way, with children being able to engage in the text and its happenings as the veggies try to save Christmas. It can be used to explore the use of speech in stories, with children being able to identify the spoken words and find some new words in the text instead of 'said', such as 'bellowed', 'stammered' etc.

Children will love this story about Supertato and his veggie gang, the fabulous illustrations and, of course, the evil antics of Evil Pea! A wonderful, hilarious story which was given 5 stars!!!

Picture book / Reviewed by Maria Aldred, teacher