The Letters to Never Send Santa: Confessions, Complaints, and Outlandish Requests from the Files of St. Nick

You better watch out, you better not . . . What?! Laugh it up with the Big Man himself as he shares some of the funniest (and oddest) letters that children have mailed to the North Pole!

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“A timely and cogent word to the wise.”―Booklist

“A work that readers will want to pore over before drafting their own notes to St. Nick.”―Publishers Weekly

“The energetic digital collage illustrations play up the poems’ outrageous absurdity.”―Horn Book

From hilarious complaints to wacky requests to gripes from elves and Vixen (bless him), this rowdy collection of sidesplitting poems is guaranteed to get you in a holly-jolly spirit. Just make sure you don’t land on the naughty list yourself!

David Griswold graduated from Yale with a BA in English and a writing concentration in poetry, earning the Frederick M. Clapp fellowship for his original poetic works. He is the author of My Zoo, A Book of Feelings; Mother, What is the Moon?, Fur & Feather Stand Together, and Letters to Never Send Santa. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The works of Mexico City artist Luis San Vicente have been exhibited in Mexico, Venezuela, Europe, and the U.S. He has won UNESCO’s prestigious NOMA Encouragement Concours Prize for Illustration. UNESCO honored his work (1997, 1998, and 1999) in their prestigious Youth and Children’s Catalog of Illustrations.