YES, VIRGINIA, THERE REALLY IS A SANTA CLAUS

Spector's (He Is Alive!) large-size picture-book reprints the legendary letter to the editor and the response printed in the New York Sun in 1897. When eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon questions whether there is a Santa, editor Church confirms that Santa is indeed very real, as are countless "wonders unseen and unseeable in the world." Creamy pastels, if a bit overdramatic, invite readers into a vivid, softly lit Victorian world. Ages 8-up. (Aug.)