Countdown to Christmas,

This was my all-time favorite Christmas book as a child. It is an adorable story about having faith in the magic of Christmas. Santa tries hard to become "mod", and in doing so, loses sight of what Christmas is all about. He tosses his magic toy sack out into the snow and replaces it with a new, sythetic sack which is incapable of holding all the toys he needs to deliver on Christmas Eve. Santa realizes he's made a terrible mistake by tossing out the sack he's used his whole life and goes out on a search through the ice and snow to find it. Along the way he realizes that being "old-fashioned" isn't such a bad thing afterall! This book needs to come back into print. A new generation of children is missing out on a unique and much loved Christmas treasure!

This is a cute take-off on the classic "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." The story starts off on "the fourtheenth of December, way back in the sixties, 'twas the jet age remember?" Santa wants to update things a bit. He ditches his traditional, ratty old sack by throwing out the window into the wind and goes with a mod pschodelic version. He tries spray painting his sled in tie-dye fashion. Unfortunately, when he tries to pack the new bag, he can't fit the toys!! Now he is on a frantic search of the North Pole to find his bag. Will he find it? Will the children of the world ever find toys under the tree? Read the book to see.