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Conrad, Pam

The Tub People's Christmas

32 pp. | HarperCollins/Geringer | October, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-06-026028-9 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-06-026029-7 $$15.89
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Richard Egielski. Christmas Eve finds the Tub People, a group of bath toys, keeping a sleepy vigil for reasons about which they are unclear. Soon they're watching in wonder as a man arrives via the chimney and decorates a tree. As the final touch, St. Nick hangs the Tub People themselves on the tree as ornaments. Large, attractive watercolors adeptly capture the stiff but appealingly rounded toys, but the wordy story strains for a sense of wonder it doesn't achieve.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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