The Holiday Heroes Save Christmas

by Adam Wallace, Shane Clester (Illustrator)

Overview

Join in on a zany Christmas adventure with this festive and funny new picture book featuring iconic holiday characters like you've never seen before—as superheroes!

Breaking news from the North Pole! Santa Claus can't deliver presents on Christmas Eve, and he needs backup. But not just anybody can help him—he needs the Holiday Heroes! This Christmas, it's up to the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, a Witch and a Leprechaun to fill in for Santa and save Christmas. Can the Holiday Heroes deliver presents without being spotted and keep Christmas on track for every little girl and boy? The Holiday Heroes Save Christmas is a new approach to giftable Christmas books that will have readers laughing all season long!

The perfect holiday picture book for kids 4–7 who love superheroes AND Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and more holidays year-round! This Christmas story for children is an easy gift or stocking stuffer and an exciting way to create family time this holiday season, and even start a new screen-free Christmas tradition!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492695387
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	10/02/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	11 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Adam Wallace is a children's writer and cartoonist living in Australia. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Catch series.

Adam Wallace is a children’s writer and cartoonist living in Australia. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Catch series and The Holiday Heroes Save Christmas.

Editorial Reviews

09/24/2018
On December 22, when the Holiday Heroes—the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, a leprechaun, and a witch—assemble for their monthly meeting, the hero of the season is missing. But Santa chimes in via video to share the news that he is sick and counting on his teammates to deliver presents on Christmas Eve. After an impromptu, bungled training session at the North Pole, the substitute couriers lift off in the high-tech “Super Sleighmobile 3000” (no reindeer required) to launch their calamity-riddled mission, which involves a crash landing, a toppled Christmas tree, and cookies transformed into spiders. From afar, Santa intervenes, instructing the heroes to “sort this out,” and they rise to the occasion. With an animated cartoon vibe and bright hues, paneled pictures by Clester (The Picky Eater) ramp up the frivolity of this slight but jolly holiday offering. Ages 4–7. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"A mere three days before Christmas, Santa Claus is sick—luckily, he has the rest of the Holiday Heroes to help him out. Told through lively illustrations and a comic-book style layout, some disaster ensues when a leprechaun, the Tooth Fairy, a witch, and the Easter Bunny take over the Christmas duties but, ultimately, their unique strengths, creative thinking, and teamwork are showcased and celebrated." — ForeWord

From the Publisher

2018-08-20

The Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, a witch, and a leprechaun help out when Santa comes down with a cold.

At a meeting of the Holiday Heroes, Santa tells the others that he won't be able to deliver presents this year. They overcome their shock when he offers to train them at the North Pole. The adventure unfolds at breakneck speed as the heroes do their best to get to a "bazillion" houses by morning. Along the way they encounter problems trying to land the Super Sleighmobile 3000 and crashing into a Christmas tree as they come down a chimney. Santa keeps an eye on them by video and helps things along. When they're spotted by a child, they use their unique superpowers to put things right with "sleeping fairy dust," superstrength, superspeed, and magic. With its narrative boxes and speech bubbles, the bright illustrations are a cross between comic-book and TV-cartoon styles. Each hero is described on a separate page with a profile that includes their catchphrases, likes, and dislikes. Only Santa and the Tooth Fairy are introduced at the beginning of the book. The others, somewhat puzzlingly, are at the end. Santa and the leprechaun are depicted as white, the Tooth Fairy is black, and the witch, of course, is green.

A silly, lighthearted tone distinguishes an otherwise nondescript book. (Picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews