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

Santa tries his hand at many jobs before finding the perfect job as the world's greatest gift giver.

Santa goes to considerable trouble before discovering that reindeer are just the right animals to pull his sleigh.

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...

When Santa fails to appear even though his sleigh is packed and the reindeer stand waiting, he has a very good reason for not being ready.