This book is one of my favorites (actually, I don't own or read them to kids if they are NOT a favorite) because it gives a sweet explanation for why there are so many Santas around at Christmas. Apparently, one little sparrow didn't fly south for the winter and ended up stuck in the cold. Santa invited the bird to warm up in his beard and then stay the winter. But an unforeseen laying of eggs just might derail Santa on Christmas Eve.
Yesterday for the first time a little guy said, " Nah. Uh uh." So cynical for six years old! Teacher and I looked at each other and then I said, "Well, look, these are actual photographs, not an artist drawing pictures. Real photographs." And I left it at that.
This one is new to me this year. Yes, I still buy picture books but they have to be original, great art and I have to love it. Santa has been doing this for years. He comes home - finally - on Christmas Eve and collapses from exhaustion, allowing himself an extra half hour of sleep in the morning before getting up and starting to make toys all over again for next Christmas. Polar Bear finds out from one of the elves that Santa doesn't do nor has ever done Christmas and sets out to change all that. The elves take Santa out to find a tree and they have to explain to him WHY. Then they decorate, make cookies, etc. The whole package. Even a visit from SANTA! In the end Santa has so much fun he suggests they do this every year. And so they do.
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