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By trish.lee@newburynews.co.uk (Trish Lee) Newburytoday children’s book reviewer CAROLINE FRANKLIN is feeling really Christmassy with her final monthly selection of 2021: Many families have their own Christmas traditions – when I was a child we always wore something new on Christmas Day. A look at traditions in other countries is fascinating, such as the Norwegians hiding all the brooms in the house on Christmas Eve, a centuries-old custom dating back to the time when it was believed witches and evil spirits would be out looking for brooms to ride on. In Ukraine the custom of putting fake spid…