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Posted: March 26 2007 at 8:28pm | IP Logged Quote Cay Gibson
I am having a field day with Patricia Polacco's books. A field day, I tell ya! You can all be assured that at least one of her books will be featured in the Christmas Mosaic .

Has anyone read her Welcome Comfort?

My library doesn't have it and I need to know if it portrays Santa Claus as a reality. I don't mind it if Santa Claus is present but focused on the real reason for season (Jesus) or as an analogy of St. Nicholas, but I don't want to list it in the booklist if it's just another fun, "Santa visits my house" book. It would have to have a lot of meaning for me to include it and I trust the judgement of this group.

Please let me know if you've read it and what you thought about it.

Thank you.

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Posted: March 28 2007 at 8:17am | IP Logged Quote marihalojen
Cay, I checked out her website, and it says the book is about an overweight boy who is teased at school, Santa takes him for a sleigh ride on Christmas Eve and gives him a gold pin as a remembrance. Years later, the boy grows up to become Santa Claus. The main message is presented as 'Teasing is wrong!'

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I haven't read the book, but I really like Patricia Polacco's books. This one sounds rather odd to me though. Has anyone actually read it?

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Posted: March 28 2007 at 11:58am | IP Logged Quote JennGM
I love Patricia Polacco's ethnic books. I haven't seen this one.

I'll confess that when I read the subject line I was thinking more along of the lines of Southern Comfort.

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Posted: March 28 2007 at 12:29pm | IP Logged Quote Bridget
It's been a long lent, huh, Jenn.

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Posted: March 28 2007 at 1:20pm | IP Logged Quote Cay Gibson
      
Jenn and Bridget,
You two girls are killing me.

Thank you for the sketch, Jennifer.
I don't think I'll list it. I'm entranced by Polacco's books at the moment (that's a completely different thread )and restaining myself from ordering all of them. I did treat myself and the girls to two of her books last week at the bookstore.

When we studied her at the Book Fiesta a couple years ago I only read her Halloween one. I forget the title (and too lazy to go look it up ) but it was something-Graves family.

I couldn't stand it. There was no point to the story and I thought it was terribly weak.

Since then I've read many of her ethnic stories and am totally in love with An Orange for Frankie .

But I think I'll leave out Welcome Comfort. Thanks again.


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