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32 pp.
| Simon/Wiseman |
October, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4169-6108-6$15.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Karen Hillard Good.
After caring for an exhausted reindeer they discover while leaving treats out for the woodland animals, family members awake on Christmas morning to find a special thank-you note and gift from a grateful Santa. Watercolors warmed with muted brown-hued tones are suitably Christmassy, but the rhyming text is singsongy and the story (especially the ending) is sentimental. `