Our question of the week was about favorite holiday books from childhood. My personal favorite is one that I remember not for its plot but for its texture: an oversized (quite tall) paperback Christmas story, which I believe but cannot swear to was an edition of The Night Before Christmas. The crucial feature of the book? The fuzzy Santa on its cover. To me, he's the Santa to whom all other Santas must be compared.
It might have been a Whitman edition, circa 1950s or 1960s. It's still extant at my parents' place; I'll have to take a look at the publication info when I'm there next week.
(...but not until after I've finished my annual convening with its cover.)
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Fuzzy-Wuzzy Wuz A Santa
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Could you scan the cover so we can get a vicarious thrill from the fuzzy Santa?
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