Because Ellsworth, a dog, behaves too much like a dog when he is off duty, he is asked to leave his job as economics professor at Wallywell, causing him quite natural concern for the future.
A resident of the North Pole with the ability to slide up and down chimneys meets a flying reindeer and some industrious elves, in this fictional biography of Santa Claus.
Although he enjoys some aspects of his retirement, eight-year-old Brian gains a new perspective on his job of being a child after spending time in Florida's Happy Sunset Retirement Community.
Freddy LeGrand ends his transatlantic flight somewhere in the French countryside. Soon he sets out for Paris with a new plane, but trouble lies just beyond the next horizon.