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Polacco, Patricia

Welcome Comfort

34 pp. | Philomel | October, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-399-23169-2 $$16.99
(4) K-3 Taunted in school and bounced around foster homes, overweight Welcome Comfort finds his only friend in big-bellied Mr. Hamp, the school custodian. Welcome remains close to Hamp through the years; one Christmas he learns that he's been chosen to replace Hamp as the next Santa Claus. Sentimental but appealing, the story of a special inheritance is illustrated with lively pictures wrapped up in cheerful Christmas colors.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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