Merry Christmas Stinky Face

Lisa McCourt. Troll Communications, $15.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-8167-7468-5

One of the all-time champion worriers returns in Merry Christmas, Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt, illus. by Cyd Moore. Here Stinky Face challenges his unflappable mother to come up with contingency plans for various possible emergencies: ""What if Santa landed on our roof, and one of his reindeer got his antlers stuck in the tree that hangs over my bedroom window?""

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