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Sierra, Judy

'Twas the Fright before Christmas

32 pp. | Harcourt/Gulliver | October, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-15-201805-0 $$16.00
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Will Hillenbrand. While delivering Christmas presents to an old haunted house, a mouse wearing a Santa Claus hat accidentally tickles a sleeping dragon's nose. The result is a fiery sneeze that causes a chain reaction of mishaps, waking the entire house. Sierra's rhyming text is a bit repetitive, but Hillenbrand's muted, mixed-media illustrations, though spatially confusing, are richly textured and moody.
Reviewer: Mark Adam

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