*****= An all-time favorite
**** = Outstanding
*** = Above average
** = Enjoyable
* = Good,
with reservations
****Toot and Puddle
I'll Be Home for Christmas
by Hollie Hobbie
Reviewed December 6, 2001.
Little, Brown and Company, 2001. 32 pages. Available at
Sembach Library (E HOB).
This is a warm and friendly Christmas book. Puddle the pig is
home at Woodcock Pocket (which we learn is in New England) waiting for
his best friend Toot to return home from a family reunion in Edinburgh.
He doesn’t want to trim the tree without Toot.
An ice storm in Edinburgh and a snow storm in Boston conspire to keep
Toot away. When he has given up hope, along comes a sleigh with a
mysterious driver, who takes him happily home.
Book Reviews by Sondra Eklund