Orem Library

Twenty-five haiku give readers a fresh, humorous perspective on Santa's December preparations, and rich illustrations pull readers into every wintry scene.

Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night? The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.

"On vacation , Elliot finds a mysterious message in a bottle --and the message is from Santa Claus. He needs URGENT help to save his home in the Arctic. Elliot sails to the far north together with thousands of childeren from around the world, helped by a kindly old sea captain. And there, amid the towering icebergs and freezimng seas the children confront the oil drillers ..." -- Dust jacket.

Manny and friends must find a way to save Christmas after a trip to the North Pole goes awry.

A businessman who is not very nice has bought the North Pole and Christmas, threatening to ruin that special day, and only Chrissie, Santa's daughter, seems to believe Christmas can be saved.

The story of how British polar explorer Felicity Aston gathered a team of ten women from across Europe and the Middle East to ski over the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Pole.

When hardboiled elf Gumdrop Coal is framed for murder in a North Pole world that plays for keeps, he must travel through the treacherous Mistletoe Forrest, battle the Tannenbomb Giant, and survive an encounter with twelve angry drummers in order to vindicate himself.

Lars the polar bear offers to take home two cubs rescued by scientists who arrived in a submarine to study the unusually warm temperatures at the North Pole.

"Everybody knows that penguins live at the South Pole and polar bears live at the North Pole. But what would happen if, one day, an adventurous family of penguins took a wrong turn and ended up at the North Pole?"--Back cover.