Mike Doodson

Mike Doodson, a new dad and Digital Marketing Manager from Cheshire, won Amazon’s A New Christmas Carol writing competition with the children’s book he entered about a squirrel who refuses to share, acting as a ‘Scrooge’, while the other woodland creatures have scarcely anything to eat. Encountering three wise trees on Christmas Eve, Squirrel learns a valuable lesson of generosity just in time for Christmas.

Selected from hundreds of entries, A Christmas Squirrel is a modern and uplifting take on Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. With the themes of generosity and redemption, it’s a story for families across the world to enjoy in the run up to Christmas. Amazon has made Doodson’s story, wonderfully hand-illustrated by Ian Beck, available to a potential worldwide audience of millions in the hope that the tale will become a Christmas classic for this first-time author.

Doodson lives with his wife and daughter in Cheshire, UK.