Kangaroo Christmas
Kangaroo Christmas
Illustrations: Woodcuts by Brona Keenan
ISBN: 1-896209-89-0
4.5 x 6.5, Hc., 140 pp.
$10.95
Santa Claus is tired. He has been making and delivering toys for more years than he cares to remember. So, one day, he decides he needs a little rest, a sabbatical. He might even decide to retire. He gathers his elves together for a meeting at the North Pole and tells them the alarming news. He’s arranged a management contract with a group of people in suits and they will be in charge of Christmas until further notice. Santa himself is off to the sunny beaches of Australia, with Mrs. Claus, a few of his most trusted elves and his Christmas sleigh.
All goes well, for a time. Then the new management starts to make big changes in the way things operate at the North Pole. The elves are not happy, the reindeer are not happy, no one is happy at all. So they send a secret letter off to Santa in Australia, telling him about their troubles.
Santa heads home on his own to see what he can do. But the new managers want nothing to do with this old man whose time, they say, is passed. The doors of Santa’s own workshop are closed to him and he is sent packing.
It’s up to Santa and a loyal band of new friends, helpers and supporters to overcome the forces that have co-opted Christmas and, with just hours to spare, bring things back to the way they were and always must be.
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