A story introducing young children to Santa Claus, following him through his workshop as he prepares for Christmas.

Little ones can play a guessing game in this Christmas-themed, interactive board book with a glittery front cover! Jolly Santa is thinking of something green. He leaves presents underneath it on Christmas morning. . . . Can you guess what it is? In this festive board book, children are invited to guess the item that Jolly Santa is thinking of based on clues provided in the text and illustrations. Readers are presented with several choices on each spread—some are silly, and only one is correct. The next page mentions the correct answer and continues the game! Edward Miller's simple, direct text and bold, jovial illustrations create an immersive package that is sure to delight young readers. And with glitter on the cover, this sparkly book is the perfect way to celebrate Christmas!

In this book you will learn about how a cheerful clown stole a Christmas tree from animals. The animals were upset, but Santa Claus came to their aid, who, together with the brave dog Kashtan, found a Christmas tree and a missing little rabbit, who decided to follow the insidious clown. The rabbit came to the clown's hut and was caught. Santa Claus finds the rabbit and the missing Christmas tree. Beautiful illustrations in the book decorate the fairy tale. A tale of friendship, unity and courage.

This opens with YOU the reader searching for the legendary North Pole and Santa. You run interference with the surly submarine captain has been hired to take up to the Highest North destination of earth. Once there after arguments about how to search so you don’t kill yourself, you go outside for the first run, but You find “the spot”. Dive in feet first, you find no crash down but a gentle landing into an idyllic world. You find a very disgruntled and depressed Santa who has really LOST it. As far as he is concerned, there is no more use for him or Christmas, all his spirit is gone. A very concerned Mama Claus conceives in her mind to use HER Christmas magic and spirit with the help of all the supervisor elves (and YOU as a silent unseen observer) on a journey to find out the reason of Christmas. Go with us on a journey through the good things and the bad things of the eras of Christmas. Go through war torn challenges, go through political angsts of today and yesterday. Find meanings of Santa’s through his first name and what the original focus of what spurred him into action.. You begin to believe that which you too thought was nothing more than fantasy.

It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, a self, and then out of nowhere and with great force, the traces of our parents appear to us, in us—in mirrors, in gestures, in reaction and reactivity, at weddings and funerals, and in troubled thoughts that crouch in dark corners of our minds. In this masterful collection of new essays, the apple looks at the tree. Twenty-five writers deftly explore a trait they’ve inherited from a parent, reflecting on how it affects the lives they lead today—how it shifts their relationship to that parent (sometimes posthumously) and to their sense of self. Apple, Tree’s all-star lineup of writers brings eloquence, integrity, and humor to topics such as arrogance, obsession, psychics, grudges, table manners, luck, and laundry. Contributors include Laura van den Berg, S. Bear Bergman, John Freeman, Jane Hamilton, Mat Johnson, Daniel Mendelsohn, Kyoko Mori, Ann Patchett, and Sallie Tisdale, among others. Together, their pieces form a prismatic meditation on how we make fresh sense of ourselves and our parents when we see the pieces of them that live on in us.