Kinnerton Barbie Advent Calendar - 40g

In Britain, character advent calendars are part of the scenery by the end of autumn, stacked by the supermarket tills, and Kinnerton is the name behind a good many of them. A child's December is measured in doors.

In Canada, the search usually starts with a parent who had one of these on the windowsill as a kid and wants the same small daily drama at home. Grandparents are close behind, wanting something proper from the UK to send to a little one who has never lived there.

The format is the classic one: a flat cardboard calendar with a small chocolate behind each door, 40g in all. The box is slim enough to hide on top of a wardrobe until the first, which is wise. Keep it somewhere cool, away from the radiator and from small investigators with sharp fingernails.

Kinnerton is known in Britain for putting children's favourite characters into chocolate, and plenty of families make a set of it. The calendar covers the countdown; a selection box and a few stocking fillers take care of Christmas morning itself.