A Christmas story for Mateo

Here is how a story called "Mateo and the Crimson Messenger" might begin:

The lighthouse lamp cast its steady beam across the churning, frozen sea, a comforting rhythm in the lonely night. Mateo, wrapped in his coziest blanket, watched the ice floes drift past like silent, white ships. Suddenly, a faint, rhythmic tapping echoed from outside his window, too regular to be the wind. He crept to the glass, peering into the swirling snowflakes. Pressed against the pane, almost camouflaged by the white, was a small, feathered creature – a pigeon, not white like the snow, but a vibrant, impossible crimson, with a tiny, rolled parchment tied to its leg.

What happens next? Mateo soon learns this unusual messenger carries a desperate plea from a very cold, very important person.

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The full book is written fresh for him: you tell us his age, look and favorite things, and Mateo appears in all 12 illustrations, saving Christmas in his own adventure. The opening above is just an example; every book is different.

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