Eight Jolly Reindeer

by Ilanit Oliver, Jacqueline Rogers (Illustrator)

Overview

A shaped board book with tabs and glitter featuring Santa's eight adorable reindeer!

Eight jolly reindeer flying with delight.Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!Young readers will love counting down from eight to one in this adorable story book featuring Santa's famous reindeer! The familiar, catchy rhymes combined with Jacqueline Rogers's soft, sweet illustrations make this a perfect story to celebrate Christmas!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545651455
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	09/30/2014
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

ILANIT OLIVER has written and edited over a hundred children's books for kids of all ages. A graduate of Barnard College, Ilanit lives, works, and writes in New York City.

Jacqueline Rogers has been illustrating children's books for more than 20 years. Her titles include Five Bouncing Bunnies, I Am Blessed, and The Littlest Christmas Tree. She currently resides in New York.

Editorial Reviews

09/15/2014
Readers can count down from eight to one, while acquainting themselves with the names of Santa’s reindeer, in this board book with a tabbed format and glitter accents. The reindeer are an active bunch, it turns out—Rogers shows them stretching, playing soccer, sledding, skiing, and more: “Five jolly reindeer/ ready to soar./ Up goes Vixen/ and then there are...” The conclusion to each rhyme does double duty as the start to the next one. It’s a cheerful holiday counting rhyme with plenty of reindeer antics to go around. Ages 2–4. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

2014-09-03
Readers can count down eight of Santa's reindeer as they jump up and out of the scene. In each one of the mostly double-page spreads, one reindeer, from Dasher to Blitzen, plays a central role in a winter activity (sledding, ski jumping, ice skating—and soccer and yoga?) that launches the creature into the air. Glitter-speckled tabs, each with small portraits of a member of Santa's herd, appear at either the top or the right side of each page, which little fingers will enjoy flipping. In what looks to be pencil-and-watercolor cartoons, Rogers uses different facial expressions, as well as collars, bows or other accessories, to distinguish the reindeer from one another. Donner (not Donder) and Blitzen are squeezed together on the penultimate spread, likely to keep the page count down. The verse mostly scans, but the rhyme scheme has become the cliché of counting books: "Eight jolly reindeer / stretching up to heaven. / Up goes Dasher / and then there are... // Seven...." Santa, his iconic sleigh and the eight reindeer in flight make a dramatic and required appearance on the book's final double-page spread. As with many holiday gifts, the sparkly packaging may interest toddlers more than what's inside. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews