
The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper
Author: Jean Van Leeuwen
Narrator: Daniel Bostick
Unabridged: 2 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Full Cast Audio
Published: 01/01/2007
Categories: Children's Fiction, Animal Stories

Author: Jean Van Leeuwen
Narrator: Daniel Bostick
Unabridged: 2 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Full Cast Audio
Published: 01/01/2007
Categories: Children's Fiction, Animal Stories
Jean Van Leeuwen is the author of more than fifty children’s books from picture books to beginning readers to middle-grade fiction, including The Great Cheese Conspiracy and Five Funny Bunnies: Three Bouncing Tales, illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf. Her books have won numerous awards, including the William Allen White Award, the South Carolina Children’s Book Award, the Washington Irving Children’s Choice Award, and many ALA Notable Book citations. Her popular Oliver and Amanda Pig Easy-to-Read series was called “timeless as the truths of childhood” by the New York Times. A former children’s book editor, she lives in Chappaqua, New York.
Recently grabbed a used copy for a friend's kid, and they passed it along to me after they were finished. It's been a million years since I read it as a child, so I figured 'why not?' So glad I did! It's simply charming. As a youngster, I remember it as one of the best books in the world... it didn'......more
I owned a copy of this book as a child - a story of three mice that live in a dollhouse in Macy's, become friends with the Macy's Santa (well, he leaves them food - a standard animal-person relationship), and rescue him when he is kidnapped. I won't giveaway WHO kidnaps Santa in this review though -......more