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Here we go! Tomorrow the conclusion of the story arrives. I have loved this book most of my life, and one of these years I intend to flesh out the full review it deserves. It probably won't be in 2025, though; I'm beat from all the Christmas events and merriment, irreplaceable and fun as it all is.

It's getting harder to find opportunities to sit down and put all my energy into an artistic review this close to Christmas, but I'm going to do my best to read this once more tonight and complete my review. Mike Curato's work deserves the undivided attention.

Scheduling has been hectic so close to Christmas, but I'll try to read this again today so I can perform the second draft of my review.

The Christmas decorating at the Austin farmhouse is all but complete!

The class and I read to a few endings, and this was the last. We reached the two best endings in the book.

I'm reading this to my mother's first-grade class today as part of their Christmas party!

More Christmas prep...

I'm going to read this tonight before revising my review. Mike Curato has a talent for portraying an old-fashioned Christmas.

Final decorating is happening for Christmas! In fact, the next three days are each about one sentence each. The eighteenth is less than that.

Just wonderful. As usual for Chris Van Allsburg.

Chris Van Allsburg! :-) I'm giving this book to a friend tomorrow as a component of his Christmas present.

Pageant rehearsals are ramping up...

One more read of this tonight before I set down the first draft of my review. Mike Curato and his Little Elliot picture books are amazing in their consistency of quality.

Off to Tibet. Can we survive long enough to discover the secret of human levitation?

Let's reroute and sleep in before our meeting with Snide.

Three flakes of snow? I wonder if they're foreshadowing a more substantial deluge.

Who would have guessed being conscientious and getting an early start interviewing persons of interest would lead to a death ending as my first of this book?

Every time Vicky helps solve one problem, another arises. This Christmas is a real Whack-a-Mole experience.

Chanukah begins tomorrow evening, so...let's read! :-)

It makes sense to see Mr. Snide at the Museum of Natural History before I try tracking down people farther away to see if they can bodily levitate by natural means.

Vintage Paul Granger. A simple scene sitting in your study listening to a client present his mystery is a thrill! Granger is one of my favorite illustrators ever.

I haven't loved any of Richard Brightfield's entries to this point in Choose Your Own Adventure, but perhaps The Secret Treasure of Tibet will be the first. I'm excited for some Paul Granger illustrations in a book I've never read.

The puns are frying deeper than ever, as expected!

Eric Geron and Jannie Ho's first collaboration was an entertaining time. Can they recapture the vibe for the sequel?

Still snowless this far into December, I see. We probably won't get any snow prior to Vicky's Christmas pageant debut as the angel...