Hello, I'm Patrick Adams. And I'm Caroline Legere.
And this is Librarians of Littles, a podcast
where we share books, give makerspace ideas,
and give tips and tricks for working with our
youngest learners in the library setting. Today,
we have two winter holiday books to share as
it's getting closer to that time of year. The
first of which is called Happy Holidays. It is
published by Little Simon, an imprint of Simon
& Schuster's children's publishing division in
2022. The author is Cindy Jin, and the illustrator
is Rob Sayegh Jr. This book is not on any lists
and has not received any awards, but our author
Cindy Jin is very elusive. There's not a lot
about her online other than She lives in New
York and she writes and edits children's books
and she has actually written quite a few books.
Some of them include Supermom, illustrated by
Jenin Mohamed. How Do You Say Goodnight, illustrated
by Shirley Benitez. Into the Sandcastle, a Lift
the Flat book, illustrated by Alison Black. Being
Brave, illustrated by Ashley Dugan. Lake Life
with You. illustrated by Andres Lendazabal. The
Birthday Buddy, illustrated by Letitia Moreno.
The Wheels on the Costume, illustrated by Lauren
Lowen. VIP, Very Important Preschooler, illustrated
by Ella Bailey. 100 Days of Kindness, illustrated
by Grace Habib. and many more. And before we
go on, I need to tell you, I need to find this
book because I want it. She has a book called
The Wheels on the Costume. And it is a book about
kids that are in wheelchairs and that kind of
like, and so how they their costumes can be made
and used around the wheelchairs and it is all
rhymes and goes to the Wheels on the Bus song.
That's cool. I love the inclusion that it it
pushes for and so I really, really need to get
a copy of it and add it to my library because
I think that's amazing. So that's very cool.
Yeah. Wow. Cool. And the Illustrator. Rob lives
in San Francisco. He is a former toy designer
who later became an artist and illustrator. He
draws inspiration for stories and arts by collecting
vintage toys and exploring San Francisco. He
frequently does school visits both in person
and virtual. Visits are about 45 minutes each
and there is a form on his website for those
interested in setting up a school visit with
him. And some of his other books include Arlo
Draws an Octopus by Lori Mortenson, I'm Not Scared
You're Scared by Seth Meyers, Cue Pig by Claire
Tattersfield, and One Summer Night by Tammy Solzano.
And so for this book it is a very cute book that
is in rhyme and just points out that many families
celebrate different holidays during the winter
months, but it all kind of revolves around being
with family and spending time together and making
memories. It's a very cute little book. It's
not super long, but I really love that it mentions
more than just like the one main winter. Holiday,
it includes Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and
even Christmaca, which is awesome because I have
a very diverse... campus of students and not
every one of my students quite a few actually
do not actually celebrate Christmas and so to
be inclusive and be like yes Christmas is a thing
and not to discredit it but to also include some
of those other holidays that other students celebrate
is just really nice and it's a it's a really
cute story and I love that with each mention
of each holiday there's like a little Christmas
card that's made to celebrate each of those holidays
and the illustrations are just kind of they're
very bright and colorful and cute and like there's
again I love books that have inclusion so there's
a there's a child that's in a wheelchair and
there's like families with very diverse like
skin tone colors and it's you know like it just
shows all the different kinds of families and
like they chose grandparents with their grandchildren
and all the things it's just a really sweet story
that I really enjoy. I like to use this with
my pre -K students because a lot of them, if
they celebrate Christmas, they don't realize
other things are going on other than Christmas.
That's true. Let's be real. We're in a very Christian
society where that is the focus. But there, I
have quite a few students that they celebrate
something else. And so to bring that in and to
expose those children that have only celebrated
Christmas to the understanding that, hey, there's
other things going on too that are about spending
time with family and enjoying the season together.
And so it's just a really nice book to be able
to share with those students and I enjoy it a
lot. I love it. This was the first time that
I had the privilege of reading this one, and
I do love how inclusive it is. It was really
good. It was nice and short and to the point,
but it just really made sure to really include
everyone, which was fabulous. Yeah, because it's
hard to make sure that everybody is included,
but this book does an excellent job of doing
that. When I was in the classroom, I always like
doing the winter holidays in general always made
me a little bit nervous. That was a big part
of our curriculum for a long time. We had like
three solid weeks where it was just like winter
holidays. And that was, I always at the beginning
of that unit, On the very first day, I always
sent home a letter explaining to families that
we would be learning about different holidays
and I asked families to write back and let me
know if there's any holidays that they celebrate
that they wanted us to cover in school so that
we would make sure that we would include everybody
within our classroom and just make sure that
nobody was left out if they wanted to learn about.
themselves or see themselves in the curriculum
there. And I think in the library, in the classroom,
it's, you know, it's kind of reasonable to send
that one letter home for 20 kids and to make
sure all 20 kids are included. And like, you
know, if parent, then parents have the choice,
if they want us to learn about their, you know,
celebrations, we can celebrate with them. And
if they, you know, don't, that's okay too. You
do you, that's cool. In the library, though,
serving so many kids, it's really, really hard
to make sure that everybody is included, especially
with something like this, where you don't really
know what everybody celebrates. And the assumption,
I think, is naturally to assume that everybody
celebrates Christmas, just because the way our
society is. But that's obviously not the case.
We do have a lot of different religions and celebrations
going on and some people abstain altogether and
that's okay too. So I just love that this one
just makes sure that everybody is included to
the best of our ability and that we do recognize
that there are, you know, we have differences
and that's cool. We're still all celebrating.
It's still a happy time of year, no matter what.
So it's great. I love it. And that's the thing,
like my school, for better or worse, they have
every year that like they put up a Christmas
tree in the front office and that kind of thing.
And I keep the library pretty neutral and I've
had teachers ask like, well, why don't you put,
and I have to explain like, because first off
we have kids coming in every morning. We have
like groups of kids that wear head jeans and
like clearly they're not. celebrating Christmas,
the library should be a very welcoming place.
And so I want everyone to feel welcome and not
to intentionally exclude anyone. So that's the
first thing. But then, like, I will read some
like, I will read this book this year with the
kids. Because just pretending it's not happening
doesn't make sense either. No. So like, making
sure that you just want to do it in a respectful
way and make sure that you're not being exclusive.
You know, one of my favorite parts when I was
at my last campus was when we did have like the
PE teacher and the music teacher and I would
get together and we would each do a lesson. Like
we pulled the whole group that we were seeing
together and do a lesson on three different holidays
that were happening in winter and kind of. each
of us would take one to focus on and we would
do a little mini lesson and we'd get to do three
all three of them in the time that we saw the
students and it was really cool to see the students
be like oh i i do that at home but i didn't know
others do that like and get to see the differences
because i think that's a big part of this time
of year is like yeah even though there are differences
most of these holidays come down to the celebration
of of family and being togetherness and just
that kind, you know, and like there is that similarity
that that thread we can keep together. And like,
if we can hold onto that and make things happen
that way. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And there are
like, yeah. And like you said, there's a lot
of similarities with a lot of them. Like almost
all of them include some kind of a gift giving
or, you know, just being kind in general. Yeah.
Yeah. Being with family. Yeah. That kind of stuff.
Absolutely. It's good. Yeah. This book is great
for that. You know, what's fun that I haven't
told you about yet. So my new campus is I, there's
going to be two things happening in the library
this year in the month of December. One that
I guess they've always done that I don't really
know about. Too much other than I know that Santa
comes to the library. I don't know when. I think
there's a family event at one night. And like
Christmas comes to the library. I don't know.
There's a Christmas tree in my back office. I
guess I have to set it up. I'm not sure. So that'll
be happening. But I have, I have thoughts, but
okay. I know you do. I know I feel them. I'm
not sure how that really looks just yet. I've
just been told Santa comes and there's gonna
be a lot of Christmas happening. I don't know
what it looks like. I don't know. It's this campus's
tradition. So this year I'm just gonna honor
their traditions and we'll roll with it. The
other fun thing that I'm 90 % sure is going to
happen, not positive yet, is during the month
of December to make it more inclusive. I'm gonna
get to do a snowman at night theme throughout
the whole school and it's my last campus. I know
you already know this but nobody else does yet.
We used to have a massive polar express day and
I organized like a train ride for all the kids
and Santa came and he brought cookies or he brought
hot chocolate and bells and magic snow from the
North Pole and it was it was a magical day but
it always made me slightly uncomfortable because
of everything we've been talking about with the
inclusivity and such. I did emphasize the book
a lot and made sure that there was a literature
connection, but I knew I was intentionally excluding
kids, more or less, and I didn't like that. This
campus, I was talking to some other people about
Polar Express Day and I was a little sad that
I wasn't going to bring magic. But then I was
like kind of glad that I wasn't going to, you
know, focus on just Christmas. So this year,
I think we're going to do a snowman at night
theme and do like winterize the library and bring
in a massive snow machine for the playground.
And I know I'm pretty sure it's going to happen.
We started looking at vendors. and do like, like
cut up snowflakes and hang them around the library.
I'm very excited already. And I don't, I don't
know, I've got Book Fair in a couple weeks, so
I have Book Fair brain, so I haven't figured
out all the little things that are going to go
along with it. But I'm pretty excited. I still
get to do a massive like winter event. And since
it's going to be more snow themed, it'll be more
inclusive for everybody, and the snowflakes and
such can stay up until February, and I'm very
excited. I'm gonna have to figure out how that
works soon. I don't know. It's gonna be great.
That's my little tangent for today. I hope you
enjoyed it. That does sound interesting. No,
I do. I did enjoy it because it made me think.
Have you read Peter Reynolds' The Gift of Words?
I don't think so. Okay. you need to read it.
Because in it, it's about this boy that's looking
for words of hope and love and joy. And in it,
he collects these words and puts them all over
a tree. So if you're going to have a tree in
your library, you could read the book and have
students come up with words and that's what you
put on the tree. So then it's still more inclusive
because it doesn't have to be specifically Christmas,
but it can be words of affirmation and words
of hope and joy. I like that. That you need to
do this. That's great. Okay, there you go. And
like they even have like on the Scholastic website
for Peter Reynolds, they even have like a an
activity sheet where it's like the gift of words
and it explains and then it just has like where
kids can brainstorm words before they make like
a thing to put on the tree and stuff. So there
you go. Thank you. I like that. That would be
if I was going to be if it's like a you have
to put up this Christmas tree. Like that's how
I would end up getting around that. Cause I don't
like that. Like not that I don't like Christmas
trees. I have, we have a Christmas tree at my
house that will be put up after Thanksgiving.
Like it's not that I'm against Christmas. It's
just that in, in the library setting, I don't
want to exclude any of my students. And so like
that might be a way where those students can
still be included because they're it's not about
a religious thing. It's just those, those words
that are comforting and joyful and happy that
are being put on the tree. And so like, they
could be included in that without it becoming
like a thing, you know? We got off on a really
big tangent for this one, which was a really
long, I know. It was important conversation.
It was good. Yeah. All right, so the makerspace
activity for this book. The makerspace activity
that I would do with this book for my students
is I bust out the card stock and have them make
a winter card and have them draw a picture of
how their family celebrates during the winter.
And so they can make it as unique as they want
it to be for them. It might just be a picture
of just their family. It might be a picture of
their family with a Christmas tree and Santa
Claus. It might be a picture of their family
with a menorah. It might, you know, there's all
the different things that it could be, but it's
up to the student to decide what part of winter
and those winter holidays is important to them
to put on it. And then I would have some like
different like words pre -written up on like
a board for them so they could put something
inside. The the card itself and then they'd have
a little card to take home. I Love that holiday.
Yeah. Yeah, that's super cool. Very personalized.
Yeah, love it So that'd be a nice way just to
be oh allowed them to make it something that's
You know unique to them and personal for them.
So yeah, I like that's very cool Yeah, especially
around that time of year like Don't like you
know I don't pull out the crayons and markers
and stuff too often because it becomes like a
giant mess, but When we're getting close to winter
break Kind of just steer into the skid and go
with it right like it's gonna be a mess It's
gonna be all the things everywhere, so let's
just roll with it and just go ahead. Let's do
it live it up And so this brings us to our library
of littles management tip. And so as we're talking
about winter holiday, something else that happens
in December is hour of code. And for many people,
hour of code is something that's done with the
older students where they sit on a computer and
practice coding using maybe like the hour of
code website or other apps or programs that are
set up for that purpose. that becomes really
limiting, especially for our younger students,
our pre -K students who coding is a skill that
they can begin building the foundation for. Cause
really what it comes down to at the pre -K level
is it's a lot of learning cause and effect. I
told the machine to do this and then this happened.
And so there are some amazing tools that are
available to practice teaching coding to our
younger learners. If you start really big, there
are the let's go code activities, which have
basically they're squares of different shapes
and colors that have different movements and
they're big enough for kids to stand on. And
so you can put those on the floor and code having
the kids walk through the library following the
the steps that are on the cards so that you can
have that whole body movement then we can move
on to things like the code and go mouse or the
code and go mouse robots or the bee bots or i
love using things like the coda pillar i have
to be honest though i enjoyed coda pillar before
they altered it i enjoyed coda pillar when you
had to plug the pieces in together Yeah, they
don't do that anymore. The new code of pillars,
it's all already connected and you just turn
a dial on each segment to change what it does.
The old ones, each segment did a specific thing
and so you could unplug them and plug them back
in and they're all USB port plugs just getting
plugged in. And so you could change it that way.
And I liked the physically having to take it
apart and put it back together to change the
movements. Cause I think that was more of like
a concrete change, as opposed to just turning
a dial on the piece to change what it does for
the kids. But I digress. There's also the botly,
the coding robot, which uses a remote control
to tell it how to move. And one of my favorites
is actually Cubeto. Cubeto is a wooden robot
where it's a it's a cube, but it comes with basically,
it's kind of like a wooden tablet. In the wooden
tablet, there are spots for you to place plastic
tiles. Each plastic tile is a certain color and
those colors tell the robot what to do. And so
like some of the tiles tell the robot to move
forward. Some of the tiles tell it to move right.
Some of it tell it to move left. And there's
even a tile that tells it to follow the function.
And then at the bottom of the the tablet, the
wooden tablet, there are four open spaces that
you can make functions. So like when you put
that function piece into the code, it does the
four steps that you tell it to do in the function,
which is kind of cool. And so all of these things
allow the kids to move pieces and change things
to see what the robots can do. And none of them
require screens, which is really great. I love
that it doesn't have to be them in front of a
screen doing the things. The other ones that
are great are the Sphero Indie because those
use the mats and it's a little car that just
follows the mats and you can the mats have a
set function but you can go in and change that
function to be something different so you can
have the car do different things as they go over
the different mats and Another fun one is using,
they're expensive, but using the cubelets as
well. Like having the kids, telling the kids
that they need an input, they need an output
and they need a power source and letting them
see what they can come up with with those. There's
lots of different ways that we can introduce
coding to these younger kids and there are lots
of fun. There are some really great things available.
Some of them get very expensive very quickly.
It's I think in my opinion a lot of them are
really worth it because it's not the kids just
sitting in front of a screen It does have them
physically Doing something not just sitting in
front of a computer and dragging the thing and
saying, okay, it's done like and Like this is
really just at this point at this age It's learning
cause and effect and if it doesn't do what I
want it to do. I need to change it so that it
does what I want it to do and it's a it's a lot
of fun. I a lot of times what I'll do is I will
use some of those like the coding mats that like
the um that I mentioned earlier the let's go
code activity set and I'll put pieces out and
I'll let the kids move them around and then like
I'm their robot kind of that does what they've
coded and we see if it works what they want me
to be able to do and what I end up doing based
on what the the mats on the floor that they placed
tell me to do and that kind of thing. Oh that's
a great idea. That's kind of usually how I introduce
it and then we get out like the code and go robots
and stuff like that to let them see. But it's
a lot of fun, it's a lot of hands -on and I feel
like that's really where it needs to start with
these young kids is the hands -on. so that they
have that tactile part of the learning going
on. Yeah, they really do need that. Our kids
spend way too much time on screens in general
anyway, so the less time we can have them on
screens, I think, the better, as far as the younger
learners go. I mean, they're gonna have to be
on screens eventually, but they just spend so
much time just stuck there that they... I don't
feel like as much authentic learning goes on
as it should, especially when they're given free
rein most of the time at home to just do whatever
they want on screens. They view it as an entertainment
tool rather than something to actually engage
with and learn on. Although obviously it can
be used appropriately. They just, I think it's
even harder to Introduce it, introduce screens
because we're already working against how much
time they already spend on screens doing, you
know, doing absolutely nothing. So yeah, less
less time on screens is better for a lot of a
lot of reasons. But yeah, all those are really
great ways to kind of introduce any kind of coding.
And even if you can't afford to buy any of those
things. Because you're right, it does get very
expensive very quickly. There's other ways to
like, like you can even just introduce like patterning
or just because really you're telling the robot,
you're giving the robot instructions, but you
can't. give the robot instructions if you yourself
can't take instructions like you still have to
have that basic understanding of language and
such so like you could also just have the kids
follow basic instructions or do basic you know
ab patterns or something with you know duplo
legos or something and like just anything like
that is also a good really basic like if you're
just working with three and four year olds like
like really basic skills like that are also really
important for Future coding skills like following
directions and patterning like that's That's
those are skills that the a lot of these kids
need help with anyway And those are going to
be foundational for coding later on so I mean
even if you can't afford any of the fancy stuff
There's still other things that you can do in
the library for sure for our code with pre -k
and Just since we're also talking about our code
I'm going to plug another book. One of the books
that I love to use to introduce coding is How
to Code a Sandcastle by Josh Funk, illustrated
by Sarah Palacios. That's a great way to introduce
the concept also because it talks about like,
it's really problem solving. This is my problem.
I need to work to get to a solution and sometimes
my solution isn't. gonna work and so I'm gonna
have to backtrack and try again. And so that's
a great, great story that I try to use the week
before Hour of Code so that I've kind of introduced
the concept before we get our hands on some of
those things too. Yeah, that's a great book.
I love that one. Back to winter holidays. The
next book we're gonna talk about is How Does
Santa Go Down the Chimney? It's published by
Candlewick Press in 2023. The author is Mac Barnett
and the illustrator is John Klassen. And this
one was a CCBC Choice Selection for 2024 and
a Junior Library Guild Selection. And the author,
Mac Barnett, has written a lot of books. He is
the ninth U .S. National Ambassador for Young
People's Literature. I didn't know that was a
thing until this. He was appointed by the Library
of Congress and Every Child a Reader. He is an
award -winning, best -selling author of stories
for children, and his work has been translated
into more than 30 languages and has sold more
than five million copies worldwide. He currently
lives in Oakland, California. And he's written
a whole lot, so I will not go through all of
them. But some of his other books are, some of
the novels he's written are the Terrible 2 series,
which was written with Jory John. And he also
did the Mac B Kid Spy series. He did the graphic
novels, the first Cat in Space series. And he's
done a whole lot with John Classen for picture
books. Some of the picture books that they've
worked on together are the shapes trilogy, which
is Triangle, Square and Circle, which also has
its own show on Apple Plus, Apple TV Plus. I
don't know what that I don't watch TV. I don't
know. I was not aware that that existed, but
that sounds cool. I didn't know there was a show
based on it either until this and I guess it's
in stop motion or something. OK, I don't know.
I don't really TV. I'm a reader. Yeah, all the
way. So I don't really know about the TV things,
but I guess there's a shapes show somewhere on
Apple TV. So that's cool. Yeah, they've also
another book that they've done together is the
wolf, the duck and the mouse. And there was another
one. I'm missing the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Some other books that Mac Barnett has done are
20 Questions, which is illustrated by Christian
Robinson. Leo, a ghost story, also illustrated
by Christian Robinson. And he wrote the Jack
series with Greg Pizzoli. And really, there's
a lot more. I could keep going, but I will not.
And then we have our illustrator, John Cleson.
He is a children's book author and illustrator.
His book, This Is Not My Hat, won the 2012 Caldecott
Award, as well as the British Kate Greenway Medal
for Illustration. He grew up in Niagara Falls
and Toronto, Ontario. and he later studied animation
at Sheridan College and moved to Los Angeles.
So some of the books that he has done, he has
written and illustrated the Hat Trilogy, The
Rock from the Sky and the Skull, Tyrolean Folk
Tale, which was, yeah, so those were the ones
that he wrote and illustrated. Ben, he's also
illustrated. Cat's Night Out by Carolyn Stutson,
House Held Up by Trees by Ted Couser, and The
Dark by Lemony Snicket, and then books by Mac
Barnett that he has illustrated, The Shape Trilogy,
Extra Yarn, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, The Wolf,
Duck and Mouse, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
And in this book, there's an unseen narrator
that just imagines different ways that Santa
might go down the chimney on Christmas Eve, and
some of the ways get real creative with it. They're
just imagining the ways that Santa might go down
the chimney, and it's like, does he turn into
fire? No, probably not fire. I don't know maybe
he turns into taffy and gets all stringy and
that's how he goes down and it's just like really
creative ways that Santa might go down the chimney
and what Santa might do when he comes in um when
he is in the house and like is he good with dogs
I bet he knows their names the way it's written
is very like there's only a couple of lines of
text on each page So the emphasis is definitely
on the illustrations. John Classen has won the
Caldecott for a reason, for sure. The illustrations
are fabulous. They're in his, you know, signature
style, so it's like slightly darker and kind
of, you can tell that it's been manipulated digitally.
They're fabulous illustrations that really kind
of make the book. And I love that it's the way
it's written. It's very much sounds like a kid
genuinely wondering like How Santa does all of
these things like what happens when there's no
You know chimney. What do we do now? Does he
have night vision? I don't know and like I just
love all the different wonderings in it and I
think that you could it could begin a dialogue
with kids on like different on what they think
might happen. It's just a very it's I think the
illustrations do make it very engaging. It's
very MacBurnett style for of writing I think
for picture books at least is very I don't know
calming I guess like just the way they're written
they're not rhyming or anything but I just feel
like it's almost conversational where he's like
talking directly to you is the way most of his
books are written for the picture books anyway.
And I like that there's like really no solution
at the end of the book so and it leaves it open
to the kids kind of wondering how he might go
down the chimney himself. I do like with this
one in particular how it does focus on Christmas
and that is obviously a religious holiday but
I think A lot of people also who celebrate Christmas
in our society aren't necessarily religious.
I think that's just like a societal thing that
we do in America. That's just what a lot of us
do, whether they are Christian or not, which
is why, like in the last book, you know, there
was the, how did they phrase it? Hanukrismus?
Hanumus? Chrismica. Chrismica. There you go.
Like, just because like that's it's It is a religious
holiday and I get that and the you very much
can go in that direction But being in a school
library again talking about the inclusivity.
I I think though there's a Greater like this
one has a greater chance of like including Everybody
because it's not going for their religious standpoint
at all. It's just you know the more of the secular
version of Christmas so to speak I guess because
there is I mean the reality is there is kind
of a lot of different ways that you could approach
Christmas and this one I think is a little bit
more inclusive. I would pair this with another
holiday as well so that kids can you know recognize
or learn that there's not just Christmas that
we're celebrating but I do like the that it's
a little bit more unique and it's not just like
it is Christmas, but it's not, I guess, if that
makes sense. I think, I mean, well, it is Christmas.
I'll just admit it that, but it's, I feel like
it's a more inclusive Christmas. Absolutely.
I really enjoyed this book. It was really cute.
I love some of the creative ways that they were
thinking Santa might come in. Like the, if you
don't have a chimney, does he slide in through
like the mail slot and like the idea that Santa
folds himself up into the size of an envelope
with a Santa stamp and it's pushed into the slot
by one of the reindeer or something like that.
Like there's some really cute ones and I did
like at the end that it was you know I don't
know how he does it I'm just glad he does kind
of thing and I just so like it's still open -ended
and it's still it's not stepping on anyone's
toes as far as like how the magic happens it's
just some ideas and just happy that it happens
kind of thing. So something's just happened and
that's okay. Yep. Yeah. So I think for a makerspace
activity for this one, it might be fun to like
either build a house and try and fit Santa down
the chimney. That would be kind of complicated
though. So really just building any or you could
build some kind of a contraption to get Santa
inside of a house. There's a lot of different
buildings, I think, that you could do with this
one because of the different ways that Santa
might go down the chimney on Christmas Eve. You
could also just have the kids draw a picture
of different ways that they think that Santa
might go down the chimney. This one might be
a fun one for... Um, like a class book where
everybody comes up with their own way that Santa
might go down the chimney on Christmas Eve and
everybody could, you know, contribute a page
to it and dictate a sentence with Santa goes
down the chimney by, you know, and then they
fill in the blank. So there's a lot of different
directions. I think you could go with this one
because it is so creative and unique with the
different ways that Santa goes down the chimney.
So yeah. I love those ideas. Yeah. I think, I
think. a class book would be really fun to to
see what all their ideas of what how Santa might
do it yeah it's pretty cool yeah I think it would
be a lot of fun it'd be cute I think the kids
would enjoy reading that together after that
was all completed too yeah yeah maybe I'll try
that this year I think I might since I have Santa
coming to my library apparently yeah we could
read it to Santa okay anyway Well, thank you
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