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English
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Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In this new holiday classic, Tim Slover crafts a marvelous, magical novel about how Santa Claus became the man he is today. After reading The Christmas Chronicles, youll believe all over again in the magic of the season. Snow is falling, and the clock ticks toward midnight on Christmas Eve while countless children, too excited to sleep, anticipate the arrival of Santa Claus. But in Tim Slovers deeply charming and utterly thrilling...
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Language
English
Description
P.J. Lynch brings his rich and atmospheric art to the well-loved holiday poem. Children will pore over every cozy detail in these warm, sweeping watercolor illustrations--from snug mice to stockings hung by the chimney with care to toys in the bundle flung over merry St. Nicholas's back. A glowing interpretation of a favorite read-aloud, this is a keepsake volume to cherish and return to year after year.
Author
Publisher
Picture Book Studio
Pub. Date
c1990.
Language
English
Description
Children often dream of getting things from Santa, but this story lets them w onder about really being Santa for a night. From the time that children make that first little gift for mom or dad and bring it home from nursery school hidden in a paper sack, they learn more and more about the fun it is to be the one who gives.
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
c1973.
Language
English
Description
Raymond Briggs, creator of The Snowman, tells a magical Christmas story that will appeal to everyone who wants to believe in Santa Claus. Meet Father Christmas: a very human gift-giver with a tough job to do. You'll find out that he sometimes gets a little grumpy living at the icy North Pole and squeezing down chimneys, but he more than makes up for it in heart and humour. Raymond Briggs brings this endearing character to life in over 100 wonderfully...
10) Elf
Language
English
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Description
A human baby accidentally ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
Claus enlists a family of elves to help make toys for children in the Old Forest, but when the cottage becomes to crowded, they move to the North Pole, beginning the tradition of delivering toys to children around the world on Christmas Eve.
17) On Christmas Eve
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1990.
Language
English
Description
Dozens of tiny fairies guide Santa Claus to the home of a little girl who lives in a house without a chimney.
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