The Christmas Ark - Hardcover

Robert D. San Souci

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385248369 ISBN 13: 9780385248365

Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 1991

Synopsis

A Christmas Eve journey with a nautical Santa on his gift-laden ark uplifts the heart of a lonely girl.

About this title

From the Publisher:

It's Christmas Eve and Sarah and Elizabeth, who are sailing to join their father in San Francisco, are worried that Santa will not be able to find them. But he appears and takes them on a tour of Christmas celebrations around the world, until the girls discover the celebration they'd most like to belong at is the one where their family awaits them.

From Publishers Weekly:

Aboard the Queen Calafia , two sisters and their mother are making a months-long journey to join their father, who has given up farming to join the hunt for gold in California. The goal is to reach San Francisco by Christmas, but the "thick, cottony fog" may delay their arrival. "Are you sure St. Nicholas can find us at sea?" asks Sarah. That night, she dreams that Santa arrives in a "huge ark, blazing with silver light" and offers the girls an opportunity to fly over the world and pick the Christmas of their choice. While stirring and technically proficient, the paintings here--a palm-lined beach, a lion roaring on an African plain, St. Nick filling stockings--are somewhat static and not up to Daniel San Souci's generally splendid standards. The meandering story seems overlong and bogs down in unnecessary details. Still, the essential spirit of the season shines through, and readers may enjoy this diverting variation on more traditional fare. Ages 6-10.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0385248369
• ISBN 13: 9780385248365
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1
• Illustrator: Daniel San Souci