christmas fiction

Publisher Annotation: Come on a Christmas adventure with Peppa in this festive new hardcover storybook, complete with a shiny cover! It's the most magical time of the year, and Peppa makes a wish: to have an adventure with an elf from Santa's workshop! When mysterious things start happening all around her, Peppa thinks it's the work of a mischievous elf! Can Peppa find out what's really going on?.

Ming, the daughter of Chinese immigrants in 1930s California, wants to be like other children at school and celebrate Christmas with a tree, but after her father takes her to see a wise old friend, she discovers a better way to honor her heritage.

"Far, far away at the North Pole, Santa is busy planning his Christmas Eve journey across his favorite place . . . New York [in this retelling of Clement Moore's classic holiday poem]"--Provided by publisher.

"It's Christmas Eve, and the Grumbletroll has woken up full of anticipation and excitement. After a fun-filled snowball fight with his friends, he decides they must all celebrate together. He has very specific ideas about everything you need to have a perfect party--scrumptious cookies, a beautiful tree, all kinds of presents--and of course it all must be done just right. With Grumbletroll telling his friends what to do, his friends get busy on the preparations, but then everything starts to go wrong. The cookies get burnt! Nobody wants to clean up! Even the tree is crooked! As each new problem arises, that intense angry thunderstorm begins to build up in Grumbletroll's belly"--Amazon.

"On Christmas Eve morning, Holly heads out for some skating at the pond. While she laces up her skates, Jack Frost's wind blows her mittens from the ground into the air, and they travel all around the town. Meet every jolly creature and see each Christmas tradition Holly's mittens experience in The Merry Christmas Mittens!"--Provided by publisher.

Best friends Pizza and Taco prepare for Christmas by making their wish lists and doing good deeds to get on Santa Slaw's Nice List.

How can Christmas be saved? Santa's in so much trouble. With his best reindeer missing, he needs help-- on the double!.

Two "Little House" features including "Christmas at Plum Creek," where the Ingalls family works to make their first Christmas on Plum Creek memorable; and "A Christmas They Never Forgot," where the extended Ingalls family share memories of past holidays.

Humphrey and his sister, Lottie, love celebrating the Christmas season, and they eagerly await Santa's arrival to see the many presents he has brought.