Careful, Santa!

Santa

by Julie Sykes, Tim Warnes (Illustrator)

An endearing, absent-minded Santa Claus has one mishap after another one wild and windy Christmas Eve, despite warnings from his mouse, his cat, and other animals to be careful. 10,000 first printing.

Genres: Christmas, Picture Books, Childrens, Holiday

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

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Name:
Julie Sykes

Birthday:
My birthday month is August

Place of birth:
Kingston upon Thames

Places I’ve lived:
My family moved to Australia just after I was born but returned to England in time for me to start school. I was educated in Surrey and lived there until I got married. I now live in the south of England with my husband and our three children. We used to live on a fish farm, which we shared with 300,000 rainbow trout. We share our current home with a few goldfish and a white wolf cunningly disguised as a dog.

Jobs:
I’ve worked in a kennels, shops, pubs and on a mushroom farm. My first full-time job was as a laboratory technician and after that a teacher. I’m now a full time writer.

First book published:
There were two - This and That and I Don’t Want To Go To Bed!

Favourite Things:
Family, friends, Spring (the season not the bouncy sort although bouncing is good, too), cappuccino, Danish pastries, Cornwall, the sea, books, animals, chocolate.

Worst Things:
Litter, vandals, cleaning the house, having NOTHING to read.

Hobbies:
Reading, walking, cooking, hanging out in cafés.

Reviews

[Ben Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Indy · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's Christmas Eve and Santa is getting ready to deliver the presents. He's off to a rough start though. With a big gust of wind, the bag of presents falls off Santa's sleigh! Once on the ground, Santa clumsily slips and slides around trying to gather them up. With help from his animal friends and their cries of "Careful, Santa!" the presents are found, but where is Santa's mouse?

This tale of an endearing, absent-minded Santa will keep children giggling, and hoping he gets those presents delivered!

[Lucas Jackson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as good as the original but still a great Xmas picture book.

[Kate Butcher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely story, full of repetition. Children loved it and joined in well

[Kelsey · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was interesting to hear a very different kind of Santa story, but it did feel rather random. The idea of a super clumsy Santa didn’t really appeal to me because I think it takes away some of his magic.

[Jessica · Rating 2 out of 5]

Santa is supposed to be delivering the presents to the boys and girls, but instead he keeps dropping them. I enjoy the illustrations in this series. The stories are kind of meh. Not what Christmas is about in our family.

[Dan Boughen · Rating 5 out of 5]

4 year old loves it :) Really good book

[Holly · Rating 2 out of 5]

I just wasn't crazy about the illustrations or the story. It had some cute moments, but isn't something I would want to read over and over.

[Kirsty sugden · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is lovely my little girl 👧 is in love with this book.

[Jimmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Who knew Santa could be so clumsy.

[Annamarie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably not keeping

[Tam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a "typical" Christmas story and my 4-year-old loved it.

Christmas Eve is on a windy night. The bag of presents fell out of the sleigh so they stopped at the park where the presents landed. As Santa hopped out of the sleigh, he landed on his bum (my child loved that!). He slid on the ice and almost ran into the duck's house. He climbed a tree to fetch a present and got stuck in the branches. He saw presents on the slide so he zoomed down it and almost hit a snowman. Once he'd gathered all the presents, he couldn't find his helper, Little Mouse. He finally found her hanging from a tree branch. Santa and his animal friends used his coat as a trampoline. They load up the sleigh and off they go.

[Natalie Heavrin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a simple little Christmas book. Nothing amazing, but a cute book to read to a young class in the days leading up to Christmas. It'd be fun to predict what would happen to Santa next and where the little mouse might be.

[Rachel Coyne · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is in our seasonal rotation and a fun read each holiday season

[Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance · Rating 3 out of 5]

Santa has lots of troubles delivering presents. Ages 4-8.

[Maria Tzoutzopoulou · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite Christmas story!

[Mellanie C]

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