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.

Recounts how a jolly toymaker named Claus is selected by the elves to live with them at the North Pole and deliver presents every Christmas to the children of the world.

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...