The Santa Claus Book

by Eileen Daly, Florence Sarah Winship (Illustrator)

A Golden Shape Book. Santa delivers toys to the children on Christmas and finds a lost puppy.

Genres: Christmas, Holiday, Childrens, Picture Books

24 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 1972

Reviews

[Calista · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book looks like the commercial art you see in 1950s Coke commercials. I remember reading this as a kid when I got together with my cousins.

A little puppy has been lost and Santa has to get it to the right place with all these other animals.

I enjoyed it as a kid. My nephew thought it was somewhat boring, but he liked the idea of getting a cat or dog in a stocking. He gave this 2 stars.

[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

First sentence: Santa's sleigh was piled high with toys. And Santa's list of boys and girls was so long that it made a curly tail behind the sleigh. "Ho-ho!" laughed Santa as the sleigh landed softly on a rooftop. "This is a good Christmas!" Down the chimney he went. He put a doll under the Christmas tree and a yellow truck beside the doll. At John's house, he left a train. And he put a surprise in the red caboose.

Premise/plot: Santa is going about his business one Christmas Eve when he happens upon a puppy, a lost puppy. Santa is determined to return the pup to his owner. So he takes the puppy with him on his toy deliveries. Will the puppy be reunited with his owner?

My thoughts: I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE vintage books. You grow up with an image of what Santa looks like, and that is for you the real Santa. This Santa is "the real Santa." The Santa of all my childhood wrapping papers. The story is fine. I hope that the puppy does not make a mess in Santa's bag or in the boy's stocking.

Text: 3 out of 5
Illustrations: 5 out of 5
Total: 8 out of 10

[A B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another trip down Memory Lane with this one. It follows Santa Claus as he makes his rounds and discovers a cute little lost puppy.

As with other Look-Look books, it's die-cut into a clever shape. Some of the details in the illustrations stuck out in my memory, but funnily enough it was the revelation as a small child that Santa literally has separate bags for each type of toy, and I recall thinking that toy boats and toy guitars were rather esoteric. Yeah, I bet I was the life of the party at age 3.

A fun read to wind down on Christmas Day and get ready to go back to work tomorrow :( . That's what I get for being the last to request Christmas leave.

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a nice little Christmas book, with nice colorful illustrations. I'm looking for books to read for a story time during our church's Nativity Event. This is a book I still had from the days my sons were little boys.

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute. I loved the graphics. The printing is from 1977, so older style artwork, but it really looks like ART, like someone really thought it out & painted a picture to accompany the story. I thought it was nicely written, easy & would recommend.

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Santa gives puppies for Christmas!

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[Perfumegirl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read to my grandson, he liked it but not as much as some of the other Christmas books.

I think the story may have been too long for him. The illustrations were nice.

[Andy Hickman · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Santa Claus Book, Eileen Daly, Florence Sarah Winship
I remember this book as a kid. Not much variety of toys back then. ***
I'm stranded in a freezing lakeside house with no internet.
Found a copy of this book here. Read it. Helped to pass 2 minutes of mid-winter cold.
I'm texting this to myself. If I ever get out of here back to civilization I pledge to post this to Goodreads as a testament to my will to live.

[Andrés · Rating 3 out of 5]

Classic-style illustrations. Santa visits John, Davy, Sally, Billy, Jimmy, Jodi, Mike. He delivers a new puppy to Mike's stocking, and we see Mike happy with the puppy on Christmas day.

[SBC · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've had this book since I was a child and I mistakenly thought it was connected with the Santa Claus movie of 1985 (starring Dudley Moore and John Lithgow). This was not the case! This is a simple story of Santa delivering presents at Christmas to many different children. He finds a lost puppy and hopes to find his home by the end of the night.

[Rick Christiansen · Rating 4 out of 5]

By Eileen Daly. From 1972.