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...

Presents the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.

Presents the well-known Christmas poem, with mice characters.

In this parody of the famous poem by Clement C. Moore, Santa Claus is a salty sailor who pays a visit to those on board a ship in Fisherman's Bay on Christmas Eve.

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