Santa Duck
We went back and forth on this one if it should be a skip it or read it once. The illustrations and writing are average but not bad. The one thing that placed it in the skip it category was how the book defines Christmas. Most of the book is focused on “I want! I want! I want!” And that is the last thing I want my little one equating Christmas to.
However, my little one did find it entertaining. That and that the story does try to redeem itself at the end almost put it in the read it once category. If the reader is intentional and discusses the ending with a little one, it could teach Christmas is not about materialism and what you can get from it. But then, you flip what seemed to be the last page and there’s one more page where I think the author is trying to be funny, but that humor is probably lost on a little one and simply reminds a little one that Christmas is all about what he or she can get from it.
There’s a lot of great Christmas books out there that communicate kind and loving messages about Christmas so I’d just read those.
Cautions: The story defines Christmas as a moment to get get get whatever you want and there’s not much there without some intentional discussion or explanation by the reader to counter that definition.
