Fort Morgan Public Library

NN ILLUS. $15.99. 2002075200. ILLUS: WENDY WATSON. ILLUSTRATED VERSES FOLLOW THE ACTIVITES OF FATHER FOX AND HIS FAMILY AS THEY PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS. DN

It is the traditional visit of Saint Nicholas but personalized by lively drawings with the "little critters" featured.

Presents a poetic description of the first Christmas night and the birth of the Baby Jesus.

Fifteen poems celebrating the birth of Christ and the Christmas season.

"P.J. Lynch brings his rich and atmospheric art to the well-loved holiday poem. Children will pore over every cozy detail in these warm, sweeping watercolor illustrations--from snug mice to stockings hung by the chimney with care to toys in the bundle flung over merry St. Nicholas's back. A glowing interpretation of a favorite read-aloud, this is a keepsake volume to cherish and return to year after year." -- Amazon.com.

Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text welcome riders onto the Goodnight Train as it follows Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve.

Mr. Willowby's Christmas tree was so big and tall that it couldn't stand up straight in Mr. Willowby's parlor. These verses tell how Mr. Willowby solved this problem and how Barnaby Bear, Frisky Fox and the other forest animals come to share Mr. Willowby's Christmas.

No snow in ski country for Christmas? Santa's ready to help until he discovers his magical Icicle Star has melted. He needs someone with a pure Christmas spirit to journey into the mountains to find a new one. Can Little Any find Santa's rare Icicle Star in time to give ski country a white Christmas?

During the "twelve days of Christmas," a household receives such monstrosities as five moldy things, six sneeds a-slavering, and ten gorks a-creeping.