Wintervillage Advent Calendar Calendar – Advent Calendar, August 1, 2013

This advent calendar came very close to the ones of my childhood. The main picture depicts a delightful collection of animals busily going about town as they prepare for Christmas. Each window opens easily and cleanly and reveals a charming object of simple pleasure, such as an apple or a pair of mittens. The pictures all have a dreamy, watercolor or pastel quality. And the last window opens to the Nativity scene, which for me is a requirement for any advent calendar. I bought one for me and one for my granddaughter so that I could see what she saw each day. Her parents told me how much she loved opening her calendar and seeing what lay behind each window. I will look for Bernadette's calendars again next year when advent approaches.

The scene is lovely and I had hoped that as I opened each shop window or door that something inside the shop would be revealed that would add more to the scene as a whole. Example: open a window to a house and see someone knitting inside, or lighting a candle, or baking cookies. But no. This one has you open a door to the tree in the evergreen forest and find...a basket of apples. In a forest of pines! You open a door to a lovely mysterious castle and find... a cottage! What? Show me a princess making cookies or something! Open the roof of a house and find a Christmas card! That would have been a perfect opportunity to discover someone getting a Santa suit out of storage! Anyway by day five I ordered a different one and hope it will be more along the lines of how I like my Advent calendars. If you are like me, you will not like this one.

This is really cute, but the vignettes don't correspond with the front of the calendar. For example, behind the squirrel is a lantern. Behind the mountain is a bowl of oranges. This would have been much better if there was a continued theme. But overall, it's been fun to use and the quality is very good for price.

My Great Grand sons love the advent calendar

Very cute calendar. My 5 and 7 year olds looked forward to opening it each morning. It reminds me of the advent calendars I had growing up.

I am an Advent calendar-phile. Just love opening a door every day to see a wee bit of happiness and cuteness behind it. :)

I loved this advent calendar. The illustration was charming and each window revealed totally adorable item.

This is a sweet and lovely calendar. The little animals are fun, and the windows are charming. This is the first time I've bought an Advent calendar from this business, but it certainly won't be the last.

This was a lovely, good quality product. The picture was beautiful and very detailed. My daughter loved it.My only gripe was that despite ordering it 3 weeks before December it didn't arrive until 2nd December.

Very sweet and delicate. Love it. Artwork is lovely

The picture is lovely and suitable for all ages. Good quality and very good value but it did take a while to come

Good quality calendar, with pretty artwork and sensible pictures in the windows and a bit of glitter. What's not to like?

Lovely calendar, excellent value for money too