When Santa Came to Stay
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
The Grinch meets Snowmen at Christmas in this rollicking, rhyming picture book that answers the question, Why can't Christmas last all year?
What happens when your Christmas cookies are too good? Santa comes . . . to stay! At first, it's fantastic: treats and toys and reindeer flights every day. Then Mrs. Claus arrives. And Baby Claus. And before long, the Easter Bunny and her babies Chuck and Puck and Luck and Duck and . . . you get the picture. By the time the Fourth of July rolls around, everyone's had a bit too much eggnog in their cereal and confetti in their hair. As one family discovers, maybe the true meaning of Christmas is about more than presents and sweets. And maybe there's a reason it comes but once a year.
"Smileworthy [with] lots of playful silliness . . . Here, too much Santa is a bad thing done just right." —Kirkus
"Holiday hijinks reminiscent of Snowmen at Night make this a worthy addition." —SLJ
"[Makes] the most of the hilarious chaos." —The Horn Book
“Irreverent [and] high-energy.” —PW
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After one family leaves extra-delicious cookies out for Santa, he comes back for more on New Year's Eve—and doesn't leave. But it's not only Santa, notes the picture book's child narrator, portrayed with brown skin. His wife, child, and kitten arrive on Valentine's Day, his in-laws come on Easter, and pretty soon it's a daily Christmas blowout. Rhyming, irreverent lines from Sharff take readers blow-by-blow through the ordeal: "Each meal was full of Christmas cheer,/ With treats and sweets to spare—/ With eggnog in our cereal,/ Confetti in our hair!" Polished, high-energy cartooning by Kaban visualizes constant-Christmas chaos across an elf and human cast of varying skin tones. The narrator's creative solution neatly resolves this extended consideration of the possibility of too much Christmas. Ages 4–7.