A Cookie for Santa - Hardcover

Shaw, Stephanie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585368830 ISBN 13: 9781585368839

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press, 2014

Synopsis

In this clever twist on the Night Before Christmas story, a gingerbread boy cookie is carefully crafted and placed on a plate. He was made special to serve as Santa's nighttime snack, a homemade thank-you for all the presents he will deliver. The cookie wonders if he is brave enough to face up to his holiday duty. But instead of spending the evening contemplating his fate, the gingerbread boy finds himself facing two rambunctious puppies experiencing their very first Christmas. Their mischief includes a tug-of-war with presents, leaving a big mess. And it's up to the gingerbread boy to save the day...and Christmas!

About this title

From School Library Journal:

PreS-Gr 1—On Christmas Eve, a Gingerbread Boy anxiously awaits the arrival of Santa Claus and his own demise as a snack for the jolly old elf. "Later that evening/When he'd be devoured/Would he be brave?/Or a crumbling coward?" Two rowdy puppies soon tear him from his morbid thoughts; to stop them from making more of a mess with presents and the Christmas tree, the Gingerbread Boy distracts them by dancing until Santa arrives, then helps Santa clean up. Impressed, Santa hires him instead of eating him—and the puppies get a gift certificate to obedience school. The text, which uses the rhythm and rhyme scheme of Clement C. Moore's iconic "The Night Before Christmas," lollops along, and the spreads of a plucky, icing-daubed Gingerbread and those two gamboling puppies will be kid-pleasers.—Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library

About this edition

• Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1585368830
• ISBN 13: 9781585368839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Robert Bruno