Little Red's Christmas story : Little Red #2 / Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York ; illustrated by Sam Williams.

It is Christmas Eve at Buttercup Cottage and Little Red and her friends are getting ready for their trip to Christmas Tree Wood, where they will deliver sugary cinnamon sticks to the mouse family and delicious treacle shortbread to the robins. But as they approach the Wood, they find that Little Red's friend Father Christmas has a big problem: instead of eight reindeer, he has only seven! Thanks to Little Red's sack of smiles, Roany the Pony is filling in for Ronald the reindeer, Little Red is helping Father Christmas make up for lost time delivering gifts, and Little Blue is making Buttercup Cottage ready for his friends when they return. It's Christmaspuddingtastic!

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School Library Journal Review

PreS-Gr 1-Little Red returns, along with her friends Little Blue, Roany the Pony, and Gino the Dog. Their expedition to Christmas Tree Wood is interrupted when they encounter Santa Claus with a sick reindeer. Little Red saves the day by sprinkling magic dust on Roany so that he can fly and help to pull the sleigh. Young children may be drawn to the cutesy illustrations, but the treacly story is far from compelling. The overly long narrative is sprinkled with such awkward neologisms as "yippeedoodledan" and "fantabuloso." This is only for the most avid Anglophiles or hard-core fans of the Duchess of York.-V. W. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publisher's Weekly Review

Little Red's Christmas Story by Sarah Ferguson, illus. by Sam Williams, brings back the cheerful redhead and her friends as they help save Christmas. When one of Santa's reindeer gets sick, Little Red's pony reluctantly takes his place while the others decorate. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Horn Book Review

After spending Christmas Eve singing carols and delivering presents, doll Little Red and her friends come to the aid of Santa Claus when one of his reindeer gets ill. Written in sticky-sweet prose (Little Red carries around a magical ""sack of smiles,"" and characters use expressions like ""Christmaspuddingtastic!""), the text is undeserving of the agreeably old-fashioned illustrations that accompany it. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

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