FICTION

A Cookie for Santa

by Stephanie SHAW
illus. by Bruno Robert. 32p. Sleeping Bear. 2014. Tr $15.99. ISBN 9781585368839.
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PreS-Gr 1—On Christmas Eve, a Gingerbread Boy anxiously awaits the arrival of Santa Claus and his own demise as a snack for the jolly old elf. "Later that evening/When he'd be devoured/Would he be brave?/Or a crumbling coward?" Two rowdy puppies soon tear him from his morbid thoughts; to stop them from making more of a mess with presents and the Christmas tree, the Gingerbread Boy distracts them by dancing until Santa arrives, then helps Santa clean up. Impressed, Santa hires him instead of eating him—and the puppies get a gift certificate to obedience school. The text, which uses the rhythm and rhyme scheme of Clement C. Moore's iconic "The Night Before Christmas," lollops along, and the spreads of a plucky, icing-daubed Gingerbread and those two gamboling puppies will be kid-pleasers.—Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library
Destined to become Santa's snack on Christmas Eve, resourceful Gingerbread Boy reins in the household's two unruly puppies and helps Santa clean up the mess they've made. Instead of eating him, an impressed Santa hires the cookie as watchman for his toy shop. Lively pictures, many cookie's-eye-view, illustrate this amusing (if sometimes halting) rhyme in the style of "The Night Before Christmas."
Reviewed by Eva Mitnick , Oct 01, 2014

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