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Summary: Did Santa Claus make Little Whistle's toy friends?
Review: Everybody knows that up at the North Pole in Santa's workshop is where toys get made and that on Christmas Eve Santa Claus goes around the world distributing presents to all the good little boys and girls. But in "Little Whistle's Christmas," told by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Tim Bowers, we learn that is not always the end of the story. Little Whistle is a real guinea pig who lives in Toytown. Each night, when the store closes, he puts on his blue pea coat and visits his friends, the toys. This night he tells them that it is Christmastime and that the children are talking about Santa. But not all of the toys know about Santa and when Violet the china-doll informs that that Santa makes toys for all the children, Little Whistle wonders if Santa made his friends. When his friends have to admit that they do not know, they decide to write Santa a letter to find out the truth. "Little Whistle's Christmas" is a charming little Christmas parable, the lesson of which is made with gentle humor and should not be lost on the small children for whom it is intended. This is an excellent bed time story during the Holiday season for younger children, even if they are not old enough to read it all by themselves. This is the fourth volume in the Little Whistle series, following "Little Whistle," "Little Whistle's Dinner Party," and "Little Whistle's Medicine," all written by Rylant and illustrated by Bowers.
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