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It's a week before Christmas the residents of Pine Cove, California are feeling the joy of Christmas, except Little Joshua Barker. Little Joshua Barker is in need of a Christmas miracle, he is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old has only prayer: Please, Santa, come back from the dead. Archangel Raziel has come to Earth seeking a small child with a wish that needs granting. Unfortunately, Archangel Raziel isn't...
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This is a bittersweet story about faith and belonging that weaves within it a bicycle, an old stranger, and a young boy who can't afford to believe. Berkley Breathed retells his father's story in poignant, sometimes funny text accompanied by seventeen watercolor paintings that bring the fifty year old tale to life. Plus, of course, there is a remarkable tree still standing in a Northwest forest that guards the evidence forever. Included is a photograph...
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A baby is found by wood nymphs in the forest of Burzee. They raise him as their own and give him the name Neclaus. When he grows up, Neclaus has to leave the forest so he makes a home for himself in the laughing valley of Hohaha, where he lives amongst humans for the first time. He discovers there that many children are very poor and neglected so, to cheer them up, he whittles wooden toys as gifts. Eventually he makes presents for all the children...
27) Father Christmas
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Pictures and brief text follow a rather disgruntled Santa Claus on his annual rounds.
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"Love is full of surprises - though few compare to realizing that you're marrying the real-life Santa. April Claus dearly loves her new husband, Nick, but adjusting to life in the North Pole is not all sugarplums and candy canes. Especially when a cantankerous elf named Giblet Hollyberry is killed - felled by a black widow spider in his stocking - shortly after publicly arguing with Nick. Christmastown is hardly a hotbed of crime, aside from mishaps...
29) Santa calls
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Art Aimesworth receives a mysterious summons from Santa Claus and he shares a Christmas adventure with his sister that brings them closer together.
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December Holidays for Kids
OBD Christmas Chapter/ Nonfiction Books - Youth
Winter at Tioga
Winter at W.A. Johnson
OBD Christmas Chapter/ Nonfiction Books - Youth
Winter at Tioga
Winter at W.A. Johnson
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The lives of three people are changed by an old man who insists that he is Santa Claus. Details of how the book came to be written and made into a film are included in a brief historical note written by Anna Marlis Burgard.
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My weird school specials volume 2
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"A. J. and his friends from Ella Mentry School are in for a weird Christmas surprise when they head to the local mall to see Santa Claus"--
32) Max's Christmas
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Despite his sister Ruby's admonitions, Max waits up on Christmas Eve to see Santa Claus coming down the chimney.
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Mrs. Claus needs to get out of the house. The endless snow at the North Pole is getting her down. And she doesn't see why her husband should get all the travel time in the family. So she hitches up the reindeer and takes a world tour -- leaving Santa to take care of himself (and the remaining reindeer) for the first time in a long time. Mrs. Claus loves traveling the globe, but she also misses Santa as much as Santa misses her. Will she be home in...
34) Auntie Claus
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Auntie Claus volume 1
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When her eccentric Auntie Claus leaves for her annual business trip, Sophie stows away in her luggage, travels with her to the North Pole, and discovers that her aunt is really Santa's sister and helper.
35) Santa's husband
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Offering a fresh twist on Kris Kringle, a clever yet heartfelt book that tells the story of a black Santa, his white husband, and their life in the North Pole. Everyone knows that Santa Claus is jolly, but in Santa's Husband, this cherished symbol of the holiday season is also black and gay, and married to an equally cheery man. In this witty and sweet illustrated Christmas tale, humor writer Daniel Kibblesmith introduces us to Mr. and Mr. Claus,...
37) Santa's moose
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Milton, the big clumsy moose, helps Santa one Christmas when his load is too heavy for the reindeer to pull.
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"Move over, Rudolph! It's time for the Christmasaurus to lead Santa's sleigh. The Christmasaurus is a dinosaur who lives with Santa Claus and his elves at the North Pole. More than anything, he wants to fly with Santa's reindeer on Christmas Eve! But no matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to figure out how to fly. . . . Until one Christmas Eve, when he meets a young boy in a wheelchair who has a wonderful idea. What if all the Christmasaurus needs...
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Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plunged into chaos.
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