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When Santa quits his job a few days before Christmas because of too many greedy children, his daughter whisks young Stanley Lambchop and his family off to the North Pole to help change the old man's mind.

A little girl becomes Santa's pen pal throughout the course of one year and learns some interesting facts about polar animals.

Rhyming text reveals how Santa Claus spends his time off every year, such as trying his hand at sumo wrestling and taking a class called "Elf Esteem."

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...

Art Aimesworth receives a mysterious summons from Santa Claus and he shares a Christmas adventure with his sister that brings them closer together.

When Alfred E. Elf decides to use a computer to prepare the list of good boys and girls for Santa, he causes quite a mix-up.