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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...

Mitzi the kitten greets Santa on his arrival and he leaves a gift for her too. On board pages.

Little Duck is both excited and scared about moving with his mother to a new home.

Little Duck experiences jealousy over his new baby sister until she begins to show her appreciation of his talents.

Winnie the Pooh and his friends try to help Tigger learn how to not bounce on people all the time.

A story about a little rabbit who cures a lion of the insatiable hunger which keeps him scrawny.