Gudetama: Surviving the Holidays
Wook-Jin Clark
$9.99

Inspired by the worldwide hit Sanrio character and animated series star!

The holidays are tough! Between trying to find the perfect (affordable!) gift for your eccentric aunt, to reconciling this year’s failed New Year’s resolutions, to surviving air travel during the busiest time of year…we could all use a little help.

Thankfully, Gudetama, the apathetic egg, is here to help guide us navigate these treacherous times…even if you’re a bit lazy!

Letters From Father Christmas, Centenary Edition
J.R.R. Tolkien
$28.00

Every December, an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christmas.

They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how all the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house into the dining room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house!

Sometimes the Polar Bear would scrawl a note, and sometimes Ilbereth the Elf would write in his elegant flowing script, adding yet more life and humor to the stories. No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by the inventiveness and “authenticity” of Tolkien’sLetters from Father Christmas.