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Twelve days : a Christmas countdown
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- ISBN: 9780060289546
- ISBN: 0060289546
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Physical Description:
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unp : col. ill. ; cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: [New York] : Harper Collins, c2002.
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| Subject: | Children's songs -- United States Christmas music -- Juvenile fiction |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Sitka.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Fort St. John Public Library | E SNE (Text) | BFSJ085861 | CHILDRENS Picture Books | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Horn Book Guide Reviews : Horn Book Guide Reviews 2003 Spring
This update of the familiar Christmas song features a girl whose parents give her a ""little pine tree"" on the first day of Christmas, with ornaments for it each day thereafter. The ornaments increase not only in number but in size, as does the tree itself, so that her hallway becomes a wonderland in time for Santa's visit. Soft, dark hues fill the comic illustrations of this text whose meter only occasionally falters. Copyright 2003 Horn Book Guide Reviews - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2002 November #1
Snell (Thicker Than Water, 2001, etc.) provides new words to the old Christmas song of "The Twelve Days of Christmas," with a more modern theme that may be more accessible to today's children. For the first day of Christmas a little girl's parents give her "a star-topped little pine tree," which fits the rhythm of "a partridge in a pear tree" neatly. On subsequent days they offer decorations for the tree, and as the ornaments increase in size, so does the tree, dad pumping it up as the surrounding decorations changing shape as well. For the last few days of the song, the house has fallen away and the tremendously tall tree is outside, where it is surrounded by nine smiling snowmen, 10 red-nosed reindeer, 11 eager elves, and 12 Christmas angels. In the final two spreads, Santa himself arrives, giving the little girl a ride in his sleigh. O'Malley (Little Buggy, 2002) hides some clever details in his illustrations, particularly in the first and last pages showing the little girl (still) asleep in her bedroom. Some of the items in her room are used as the decorations for the tree, and in the last illustration, Santa has left some little surprises for Christmas morning that children will delight in spotting. This offers lots of possibilities for Christmas story times, using the music or props or flannel-board pieces. Its magical illustrations definitely call for repeat readings. (Picture book. 3-7) Copyright Kirkus 2002 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2002 September #4
Snell (Thicker Than Water) tracks the rhyme scheme to "The Twelve Days of Christmas" in a modern-day variation featuring a girl, one "star-topped little pine tree" and an ensuing plethora of ornaments. O'Malley (Halloween Pie) supplies the fun as his pictures work out just how the little tree stays able to support all those baubles: he shows the narrator's father inflating the tree with a bicycle pump, and, with a little holiday magic, transports the whole shebang to the North Pole. Ages 4-8. (Oct.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. - School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2002 October
K-Gr 2-In this amusing twist on the traditional song, the gifts that a child's parents bestow on her begin in a practical vein as decorations for the Christmas tree: two candy canes, three nice mice, four teddy bears, and so forth. As the gifts become bigger and more numerous, Dad must make the tree larger and larger (he pumps it up with what looks like a bicycle pump), until it is so big that the house disappears, the white sheet under it becomes a snowy landscape, with the family outside in a wintry wonderland. The gifts then escalate to 10 live red-nosed reindeer and 11 eager elves. Parents and child delight in the increasing madness of carting down the decorations and getting them onto the tree, and at the end the little girl gets a ride in Santa's sleigh. Was it all a dream? Maybe. The inspired lunacy of O'Malley's illustrations will work with larger groups, and plenty of funny details will invite readers to take a closer look.-M. A. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
