Product Description

In this second silent adventure, Li’l Santa encounters the many critters of the night who take camp, much to his discomfort, right next to his abode. But it turns out the worst monster is an enormous devouring logging machine eating up his forest of Christmas trees around him! Turns out the night critters come quite in handy to fight the fearsome invader...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #789379 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-23
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .41" h x 8.48" w x 11.46" l, .98 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 48 pages

From Amazon.com
In a sequel to Li’l Santa that is every bit as bizarre and grisly and warmhearted as the first, Happy Halloween, Li’l Santa is a completely wordless graphic novel with so much action and adventure, readers won’t know what hit them! First, the "li’l" red-suited hero gets a talking-to from his penguin buddy for trying to sneak samples from the his picnic basket. Then he has a chance encounter with a ghastly but friendly creature (a turbaned cross between mummy and skeleton) that causes a bewildered Santa to walk into several trees. Next, he winds up rescuing this fellow from a frozen pond incident, leading to a wild party with all the cheerful demons and ghouls in the mummy-man’s coffin-sleigh. As everyone knows, what goes around comes around, so when Santa needs some help later, you know who comes running (and flying and sliming and lurching).

This may be the oddest book around, but it has true charm. Younger children may be alarmed at the beating Santa and his pals keep getting (what with walking into trees and wrangling with evil lumberjack monster-machines), but all’s well that ends well. Each page features 14 or 15 frames, ensuring that the plot hops along rapidly, once "readers" get the hang of it. A quirky delight for Halloween or Christmas! (All ages) --Emilie Coulter

From Booklist
Gr. 1-3. In his second wordless adventure, Li'l Santa takes on a team of loggers who threaten to reduce his great forest into boxes of wooden matches. This time Santa has the help of new friends--a colony of Tim Burtonesque monsters who create Halloween mischief in much the same way Santa's workers produce toys. Robin's artwork brings to mind Otto Soglow's Little King, only with brighter colors, and the comic-strip panels keep the action moving along swiftly. Children will enjoy browsing the full-page illustrations and picking out new details with each reading; the Halloween mansion is especially rich with visual gags. There's some cartoon violence (Santa is thrown into an incinerator and is nearly cut in half by a log saw), but for the most part, this is an unusual, thoroughly enjoyable holiday adventure that will please many children in the target age group. Carlos Orellana
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