Santa’s busy night
The Five Mile Press, Scoresby, 2015
Age group: preschool
The story
Santa prepares at home then heads out to deliver gifts before celebrating with reindeer at home.
My review
I like this board book. While it obviously needs to be simple for young children, it covers a lot of ideas through the text and images.
For instance, it includes colours, numbers and shapes within the story and introduces the idea of Santa being tired out by all he does on Christmas Eve.
The sleigh on the front cover in inset and texture for young children to enjoy feeling – it makes the sleigh shiny, interesting and special.
I like the happy images of the reindeer, and I like the humour of Santa giving the dog and cat the wrong gifts. On the other hand, I’m not so sure it’s a good thing to give kids the idea that Santa may confuse gifts…
It is a happy story and sure to be enjoyed by any youngster, just as it was by my three year old nephew on Christmas Day!
Sounds like a cute book! 🙂
it is cute 🙂
Thanks for this review! I have a two year old and this past Christmas was our first Christmas with Santa. She’s hooked. 😉 I’m definitely adding this to my list of holiday themed books for next year!
Happy to have helped cmonett, and glad to hear your daughter is loving Santa and Christmas 🙂
Thanks for this review. This is one book I certainly will be getting this one for my little girl. She gets so excited over the holidays and she just loves the Christmas stories.
You’re welcome, Clair 🙂 Christmas stories are fun and a great way to fill in that very long time (for kids!) until Santa actually arrives!
Thanks for the review! This will be our first Christmas with our daughter i think this is a book i will certainly be getting to add to our holiday collection 😛 😛
It’s very exciting to have your first Christmas with your own child, so enjoy it JoAnn! And I hope you get many years of enjoyment from reading Christmas books together 🙂