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40 pp.
| Simon/Wiseman |
October, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4169-5485-9$17.99
(4)
K-3
When Sophie Kringle gets the part of the Sugar Plum Fairy in her school's Nutcracker play, her great-aunt Auntie Claus decides to stay home for the holidays, moving the North Pole operations to the Big Apple. This third Auntie Claus book is distractingly wordy, but the colorful acrylic illustrations pleasingly convey the unexpected consequences of arctic weather in Manhattan.