What do you do when Santa cannot deliver all the Christmas presents to the children who have moved to outer space? Well create a Space Academy for elves of course. This is a delightful non-traditional Christmas story about Space Elf Sam. He is chosen for one of Santa's missions to outer space because you graduated from the academy with flying honors. When Sam decides to take a short-cut, he ends up crashing on the wrong planet. This planet full of aliens does not know what Christmas is so Sam has to teach them to true spirit of Christmas. In the end, Sam teaches the aliens about Christmas and gets all the presents delivered on time.
The illustration in this book are awesome. They remind me a bit of animated pictures. In fact, Sam looks an awful bit like Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story. Again I think this is a great science fiction book for children. It really sparks the imagination while continuing with a story line they are familiar with. I liked the creative space words as well. They weren't renaming things children already have names for but new things, outer space things. I think children won't be as confused this way.
I will definitely keep this book in mind when Christmas rolls around.
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