How Santa lost his job / by Stephen Krensky ; illustrated by S.D. Schindler.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 27 cmISBN:- 0689831730
- [E] 21
- PZ7.K883 Ho 2001
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Children’s Holiday | Krensky, Stephen | Christmas | Available | 33111003608508 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Santa has the best job he can think of -- bringing presents each Christmas to children all around the world. Every year he prepares for his trip: He trims his beard, takes a bath, gets dressed, and packs up his sleigh for the long night ahead. But there are always a few unexpected delays that make things a little hectic. Muckle, one of the elves who helps Santa, thinks he can come up with a more efficient way for delivering the toys -- a method that won't involve Santa at all.
Stephen Krensky's understated text and S. D. Schindler's charming illustrations come together to create a warm and funny tale that reminds us just how important the human touch really is.
Frustrated by Santa's slowness at Christmastime, Muckle the elf creates a mechanical replacement called the Deliverator and proposes a series of contests to prove that it can do Santa's job better than he can.