It’s Christmas season and all the Santa Pups--Hope, Jingle, Charity, and Noble--want is to be appointed Santa’s Helpers and earn their own magic crystals that grant children's Christmas wishes. So the Pups decide to secretly go to the town of Pineville to prove they are ready. When they arrive, they start granting joyful wishes to the townspeople, using a crystal they borrowed. But the Santa Pups’ adventure goes horribly wrong after they accidentally give Carter, a young boy who has lost his Christmas Spirit, his wish to make Christmas go away. And if the Pups don’t reverse the spell soon, Christmas will be gone forever! This action-packed junior novel is filled with Christmas spirit and includes 8 pages of full-color photos of the adorable Santa Pups!
Catherine (Cathy) Hapka has written more than one hundred books for children and adults, as a ghostwriter for series as well as original titles, including the Romantic Comedies Something Borrowed, The Twelve Date of Christmas, and Love on Cue. She lives in Pennsylvania.
For an early-reader chapter book, this is a solid book that moves, has some humor, and should appeal to today's generation. Overall, however, as a film-adaptation, there are some big details moving and/or scenes move too quick for the book, and it leaves everything kind of hollow.