Customer Reviews

Who Will Guide My Sleigh Tonight?

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This book is beautifully illustrated and his use of different animals is really fun. I gave this to 6 different children as gifts and they all love it.

Jerry Pallotta and David Biedrzycki have created a wonderfully motivating story about teamwork through the guise of a problem for Santa. Santa can't possibly deliver all the toys by himself. Each animal he tries has a different strength and weakness. The drawings in this picture book are outstanding. The hidden facts are wonderful (penquins may flap, but they can't learn to fly).There is wonderful alliteration and funny puns ("I gave the skunks a try. It was a smelly idea!) The kids I've read it to rolled in the aisle laughing at the picture of Santa's candy cane underwear! It's a great book for children of all ages!

THE JOY THE BOOK GAVE MY SONS AGES 9 TO 4YEARS! THEY ALMOST DIDN'T WANT TO BLINK THIS IS VERY EASY & SIMPLY & FAST TO READ. MY 5YEAR OLD READ IT TO US! (BUT IT WAS SO FUNNY TO SEE THE WIDE EYES ON THE BOYS FACES JUST BECAUSE THEY SO LOVED THOSE ANIMALS & THE LARGER THAN LIFE COLORS USED IN THIS LITTLE BOOK. I HAD TO KEEP SAYING CARSON READ.... THE SILLY CHOICES SANTA MAKES TRYING DIFFERENT ANIMALS JUST EXCITED THEM & TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ANIMALS & SANTA ON EACH PAGE WE REALLY HAD A BALL! THAT'S WHAT READING TOGETHER IS ALL ABOUT!

This is one of those books that gets asked for day after day during the holiday season! Beautiful illustrations fill the book, as well as lots of humor! Each page finds Santa and his helper mouse in some sort of prediciment because of the animals he tries to use to guide his sleigh. Santa has to don a snorkel when he gives the dolphins a try! He gets roughed up by rhinos crashing through houses! And those naughty monkeys ... look out Santa! It's a fun book, my preschool class (ages 3 - 5) asks for it to be read, over and over again during the holiday season. I give it 5 stars for the beautiful, funny, captivating illustrations (you just have to search for Santa's mouse friend throughout the book), 5 stars for the humor that reaches the funny bones of little ones, 5 stars for keeping little ones anticipating the next page, and 4 stars for the anti-climatic ending ... the ending just sort of fizzles out ... until the last page!

Many families have Christmas traditions that are unique to them. This makes a great one. Jerry Pallotta hits a home run with his story of how Santa decides who will guide his sleigh.

My girl was about 10 mo. old when I first read this book to her. I translated into the same language I speak to her. She really loved it! Around a year old birthday, she could turn the page by herself, so she started destroying the pages. Now I came to Amazon to purchase "Library binding" for my daughter and paperbacks (cheaper one) for my mom-friends.

I bought this book to read to a kindergarden class. Cute story. They really loved it.

My boys were 3.5 and 2.5 last year when I bought this book for them around the holiday season. It was easily their favorite Christmas book. They wanted me to read it over and over and over to them...and when I wasn't reading it, they were looking at the pictures and reading it themselves. This book went with us to every family holiday gathering so that the boys could share their love of it with other family members. I am looking forward to pulling it out this year to share with them all over again. The illustrations are wonderful. The story is fast and funny. This is a fantastic book! Buy it for any child in your life!