Santa My Life & Times: An Illustrated Autobiography

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Summary: Illustrations are wonderful, otherwise too wordy
Review: Having read the book over a couple of nights, I found it to be very text heavy. There was way too much in this book and I feel alot of it could have been edited. However, the Bill Sienkiewicz illustrations more than made up for the preponderence of overwriting. It's a good thing that there were as many illustrations as there were because it would have made reading the book more of a chore. The illustrations are charming, warm, and reminescent of a time gone by. I recommend the book if only to see and appreciate the work of illustrator Bill Sienkiewicz, who, if this book is any indicationm should do more illustrated books.

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Summary: multicultural Santa rocks
Review: I am adult who still longs to believe in the myth of Santa Claus: that a jolly old man is still roaming the earth in his airborne carriage delivering happiness to all of the good Christian boys and girls out there. But as a buddhist, I have always stood outside this tradition and wondered if his life was relevant to my own Chinese background. But with this book the universality of santa's benevolence is brought home to all. May all the faiths buy this book for the Holiday season and the Chinese New Year!

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Summary: sienkwiecz is the best artist of our time
Review: I have been following the stunning art of Sienkwiecz since I was a 13 year old, when he was illustrating for Marvel Comics. Imagine my surprise when I saw this, with such detailed artwork. I have a feeling that years for now, this will be considered one of his major pieces of art. Not to mention that it has the origin of Santa Claus as well!

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Summary: A New Family Tradition
Review: I read "Santa, My Life and Times" with my two boys, ages 4 and 6, over the week prior to Christmas. We took advantage of its longer format to spread it out over several nights, one or two chapters at a time. While I was at first worried that the youngsters' short attention spans would wane, the story, writing and illustrations are so rich that their interest only grew with each night's installment, dovetailing perfectly with their mounting anticipation of the holiday. I wish there were more longer-form children's books out there that offered such depth of experience for my whole family. We'll be reading it again next year, for sure!

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Summary: This book has enhanced family togetherness.
Review: My wife, my children, ana I have enjoyed reading this book together as the holiday season begins. The story and accompanying illustrations add to the magic of Christmas. My children have continued to request this story every night before bedtime.

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Summary: MMMM Santa goodness
Review: Oh man, My daddy got me this book two years ago and for the longest time I was like "Yeah, right Santa Claus, pffft . . ." and I threw the book in my closet. Then this christmas I was sick with the flu and I found it again. Having nothing else to do I began to read it and was sucked into the vast imagery and delicate artwork found within it's pages. It's many fanciful scenes involving the growth of Santa and his escapades in the mushroom forest and various other psychotropic locales dovetailed nicely with the effects of my cold medecine. An awesome tale of the jolly fat man if there ever was one . . . .

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Summary: MMMM Santa goodness
Review: Oh man, My daddy got me this book two years ago and for the longest time I was like "Yeah, right Santa Claus, pffft . . ." and I threw the book in my closet. Then this christmas I was sick with the flu and I found it again. Having nothing else to do I began to read it and was sucked into the vast imagery and delicate artwork found within it's pages. It's many fanciful scenes involving the growth of Santa and his escapades in the mushroom forest and various other psychotropic locales dovetailed nicely with the effects of my cold medecine. An awesome tale of the jolly fat man if there ever was one . . . .

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Summary: I loved that book!
Review: Santa, My Life and Times reminded me of the books that I loved most when I was growing up. Like Alice in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, The Little Prince, and James and the Giant Peach, the story is by turns exciting, touching, surreal, and funny and it's definitely not just for kids. I thought that the clever idea of Santa writing his autobiography was just wonderful and it made the whole story come alive. The illustrations are magnificent, too, complementing the text with the kind of beauty we rarely see in contemporary children's books. This is a book I can really see both children and parents enjoying together, and like the best of children's literature, it's a book that reveals new pleasures and meanings with each rereading.

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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: The author made it sound so real.It made me beleive again.Its a great book for the whole family(especially those that are young and young at heart!)

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Summary: Bravo Santa!
Review: This is a lovely book. I recommend it to you and your family. I bought a copy out of curiosity, and I started reading it before wrapping it up for my grandchildren. It is so wonderful to find such a creative Christmas story. Bravo!

Mrs. J. Hobson, Miami FL