Central Kansas Library System

A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

With the help of a new young reindeer and an old red-nosed one, Santa brings presents to the children of Kansas.

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...