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A Visit from Santa Clops

The Fright Before Christmas

Published by POW! Kids Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

Naughty or nice? Better think twice! ‘Cause Santa Clops is comin' to town! He’s watching with a glare you can’t fake, so you’d better be good for Ol’ One Eye’s sake!

A monstrously fun take on the holiday classic, A Visit from St. Nicholas, by Clement Clarke Moore. The South Pole's one-eyed cousin of Kris Kringle stops by a sleeping family's house on Christmas Eve. The startled and frightened father must confront Santa Clops and save Christmas for his children. Boogerthumbs instead of sugarplums, dino-penguins instead of reindeer and...coal instead of gifts? Uh-oh!

"Scary Christmas to all and to all a good fright!"

Excerpt

But he pulled out a list and gave it a glance,

To see if there was an error by chance.

Next he smiled and sighed, and ereased a stray line,

And I knew in a heartbeat that all would be fine.

"Very sorry young dad. It's a good thing you sleep light.

To give your kids coal, just wouldn't be right."

About The Author

Artist, designer and writer, Kevin “Gig” Wailgum, created the character Santa Clops® in 1990 Since then, Santa Clops® has appeared on newspaper covers, greeting cards and in comics. Gig has had other illustrations and comics appear in the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker magazine, the Stranger Newspaper, and the Resident Newspaper.

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