Central Kansas Library System

Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...

A poem in which every letter of the alphabet describes a different aspect of Christmas and its celebration.

Presents a turn-of-the-century black family's encounter with St. Nick as he delivers his presents before flying off into the night.