SANTA'S NEW SUIT
Laura Rader, . . HarperTrophy, $5.99 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-06-443580-2
"Santa learns the hard way that the clothes make the man," said
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Reviewed on: 09/23/2002
Genre: Children's
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