Category: Children Publisher: Blue Works
ISBN-10: B00422LLKA
Type: Fiction
Pages: 50
Copyright: June 28, 2006
ISBN-13: 9781590924884
Kids believe that Santa's magic makes every Christmas perfect. Read one of the amazing adventures that almost stopped Christmas from coming!
Poor old Santa is just an old fashioned kind of guy. When he finds out that all his letters are coming in as e-mails and they are asking for electronic toys instead of wooden rocking horses, he's got a terrible problem. Not only that, all his elves go on strike and refuse to learn technology. What is Santa going to do to keep from disappointing thousands of boys and girls who won't get anything for Christmas this year?
Excerpt
I talked to The Missus until my tongue collapsed from exhaustion. I explained every way that I could that I'm just an old fashioned kind of guy. And what did it get me? A computer!
I told her that I'm not into tockniligy or takqouligy, or whatever it is.
"It's technology," she informed me. "And you should be because kids certainly are." Then she stamped her foot and gave m THE LOOK.
We had been going round and round like that for three weeks. That was when she brought that blasted thing home and set it on my desk. I ignored it the whole first week. Pretended it wasn't there. Didn't even exist. I thought maybe she would take the hint.
Humpf! I should have nown it would have the opposite effect. The more I ignored it, the more determined she was that I'd fire it up.
Gemma succeeds in starting a girls' football team at her new school, but bitter rival Tyrone does everything he can to stop the girls playing. So begins a battle of wits between the girls and boys, and also between Gemma and sports teacher, Mrs Lawfo
This second book in Edie's 'Puddle' series is filled with wonderful catchy rhyming poems that have positive nostalgic messages. Her whimsical illustrations carry the poems along on ripples of warm vibrant colours.
