Since then, Tom has published several more chart-topping children's novels including The Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch, The Christmasaurus and the Naughty List, The Creakers, Space Band and the instant number-one bestseller The Danger Gang. The Christmasaurus was the biggest debut middle-grade novel of 2016 and was shortlisted for a British Book Award. And that grin only got wider as I saw in horror that she was holding a knife.Tom Fletcher is a number-one bestseller and one of the UK's most popular children's authors. I turned around to face what I had just thought was my little girl. Tears streamed down her face, and the only thing that came out of her mouth was 'There's a monster in my bed.' Sat there in the closet was my daughter, rocking back and forth like she was insane. 'See, there's nothing he-' I stopped talking when I looked into the closet. She likes to play pranks on people, surprise them, so I didn't give it too much thought and got ready for something to jump out. There was something odd about this, like she was up to something. I walked over to the closet and looked back at my daughter, who was sat in her bed smiling. 'I'm going to check your closet, and when I find out there's nothing in there, you have to go to sleep. 'There's monsters in my closet!' she whimpered. I was halfway out the door when she shouted out yet again, 'Daddy!' I turned to see her almost in tears.

'Not tonight, sorry,' I said to her, before giving her a kiss on the cheek and tucking her in. 'But Daddy, I need a story to get to sleep,' she cried out and looked up at me with those puppy eyes that her mother had.

'Sorry sweetie, but if we stay up reading we'll never get up tomorrow, will we?' I replied. It was getting late, and we both had to get up early the next morning, so I refused.

'Daddy, can you read me a story?' my little girl asked me.

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