(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Thierry Robin & Isabelle Busschaert. Santa has a run-in with a group of monsters led by a mummy in this Christmas tale with a bit of an edge, a sequel to Li'l Santa. Older kids will enjoy figuring out the wordless story told in the detailed, amusingly creepy comic strip drawings and will be entertained by the heavy-handed but action-filled (read: lots o' fighting) story, in which Santa and the mummy join forces to battle some nasty loggers.

Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Thierry Robin. In a wordless comic-strip book with as many as sixteen panels per page, Santa discovers he has no trash to use as raw material for his toy-making machine, so he goes to the big city to get some. Although the pictures are sometimes hard to "read," leaving readers to puzzle out the plot, they're Asterix-colorful and filled with numerous funny details or bits of slapstick.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam