Only YOU Can Save Christmas!: A Funny & Interactive Christmas Elf Book for Children (A Help-the-elf Adventure) - Hardcover

Wallace, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1492641367 ISBN 13: 9781492641360

Publisher: Sourcebooks Wonderland, 2017

Synopsis

It's Christmas Eve, and Santa's head elf needs YOUR help in this fun, interactive picture book from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Catch an Elf!

It's almost Christmas, and everything at the North Pole is going according to plan...until the head elf discovers that Santa doesn't have a present ready for Mrs. Claus! Time is running out, and you're the only one who can help. But you'll have to honk, whistle, wiggle, and shake to make things turn out all right. Children and parents will love sharing this zany interactive Christmas story year after year.

About this title

About the Author:

Adam Wallace is a children's writer and cartoonist living in Australia. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Catch series and The Holiday Heroes Save Christmas.

From School Library Journal:

PreS-Gr 2—It's the day before Christmas, and head elf Wink Silverbells is thrown into a panic when he discovers what he thinks is a list of presents that Santa wants to give his wife. Wink begins gathering the gifts, starting with a partridge in a pear tree, and occasionally improvising, as with five donuts standing in for five golden rings. Wink addresses readers directly with directions to yodel or dance in order to attract the appropriate items on the list. Wink gathers everything, only to be told gently by Santa that this is in fact a song, not a gift list. Wink seems satisfied, but readers may feel a sense of forced jollity as they are exhorted to keep partying with the dancing ladies and leaping lords. Cartoon illustrations and speech bubbles against a white background depict a host of North Pole and Christmas carol denizens, only a very few of whom are people of color. VERDICT This book—like the elf—tries too hard to drum up enthusiasm, with lackluster results.—Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library

About this edition

• Publisher: Sourcebooks Wonderland
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1492641367
• ISBN 13: 9781492641360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Bruner Garth