Tots to Teens: Post Santa letters and explore Christmas markets at Waterford's Winterval festival

Waterford is celebrating Winterval, its annual Christmas festival that will run from Thursday to Sunday every week from now until December 23

Pictured at the 2025 Winterval festival programme launch are Lana Murphy (8), Katelyn Darmody (9) and Pippa McGrath (7). Picture: Patrick Browne.

Books make great Christmas stocking fillers and we’ve got two festive choices to recommend this week.

Flossie McFluff Saves Christmas is the second in a series of children’s books that Eoin O’Brien has written about a feisty forest fairy. It opens with Flossie getting ready for Christmas. She is lighting candles, hanging holly and drinking hot chocolate all while singing Christmas songs.