The Christmas Reindeer

                                                                       Synopsis

 This is an illustrated “Christmas Adventure,” created to be read to young children, one episode each evening, on the fifteen nights leading up to Christmas Eve. 
 

​Jack and Mary are six-year-old twins. Mary has emailed her Christmas letter to Santa. Jack, being a boy, is a bit of a skeptic. But when Mary gets a return email advising that Santa’s Reindeer have disappeared, and that Santa’s Christmas Eve sleigh ride may have to be cancelled, Mary and Jack look for a way to help. 
 

Santa, seeking assistance, has referred Mary to his “website.” To try to help Santa, Mary and Jack “click” on the link on Santa’s site and embark upon their magical Christmas adventure in Santa Land. Their goal is to help Santa to recover his missing reindeer, and ensure that  Christmas Eve will be one more wonderful “night before Christmas.” 
 

Upon arrival Jack and Mary encounter "Snowman" and the other Christmas blow molds, Poo-lá-ris (a pint-sized polar bear) with his peanut-butter chocolate-chip cookies, Elrick the Elf and his snowmobile taxi service, Warnock the Wizard, Tetchy the Troll  (Warnock's faithful servant), George (Warnock's Familiar Spirit), Harry (George's moat monster), Maladonna (the very bad Arctic witch who is very angry with Santa), her super-sonic magic broom with its headlight, Rudolph and his red nose, the rest of Santa’s reindeer-helpers, and finally, Santa Claus, himself. 

                                     The Genesius of The Christmas Reindeer — Art Work

In my "earlier life" as a playwright, an idea began to rattle around my head for a Christmas play that could be performed by grade school students in their classroom — in the nature of readers' theater.

After setting my "classroom play" to paper, I found I really liked what I had written, So, I created a variant of my play to be used in a theatrical settling. 

With the publication of my first children's book, The Stuffed Animal, I began to think that The Christmas Reindeer would almost make a lovely children's Christmas story.

So, I sat down at my computer, and revised my play. The result is this book. I hope you like it. 

The delightful illustrations for my book, The Christmas Reindeer,  were provided by Jasmine Smith, who also provided the illustrations for The Stuffed Animal.