Product Description

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Juliette and her parade of stuffed animals prepare for this special holiday by choosing a tree, decorating the house, and baking cookies. Juliette explains that Santa will bring gifts for everyone, but when Christmas day arrives, she is so excited about her new presents she forgets all about her friends until she receives a special present that reminds her that friendship is the best gift of all. This delightful story, perfectly suited for the board book audience, captures the anticipation of Christmas and gently underscores the true spirit of the season.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #775744 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Board book
• 24 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Christmas Is Coming! by Claire Masurel, illus. by Marie H. Henry, also a board book, captures a child's anticipation. Juliette and her stuffed animals trim the tree and hang the stockings, but only the animals get to sneak a peek at Santa.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-K?This charming, cheerful translation of Demain c'est Noel (Pastel, 1994) features young Juliette and her entourage of stuffed-animal friends. The simple plot takes readers through the day before Christmas (buying and decorating a tree, making cookies); Christmas Eve (hanging the stocking, bedtime story, the toys witness Santa's visit); and Christmas Day (present opening and sharing). One or two sentences grace each page, enhancing soft watercolor illustrations with festive gold-foil highlights. A wonderful bedtime story that's equally well suited to group sharing.?LF
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Ages 2^-7. Originally published in French, this cheerful greeting card to the season opens with red endpapers covered in gold stars. Within, we meet Juliette, who with the repetition of "Tomorrow is Christmas!" chooses a tree with her mom and dad, decorates it, bakes cookies, and hangs her stocking, all with an audience of her stuffed animals and dolls. When she at last goes to bed, the toys creep downstairs to catch a glimpse of Santa coming down the chimney. On Christmas morning, the rapt audience of doll and dinosaur, duckie and harlequin, bear and bunny watch Juliette open all of her presents, until they get to a big wooden wagon "for all of us to share." Juliette's cozy home sits in a dreamy, snow-covered landscape, and its scrubbed-wood interior is full of books, candles, and handsome household objects. The book is sure to find its way into many stockings and story times. GraceAnne A. DeCandido

Customer Reviews

Christmas is Coming
I bought this book as a gift to my daughter and it has the most incredible pictures and cute story. This is the type of book that will be a keepsake and brought out every year as part of tradition!

Whoopie, another "little girl" book
My twin girls insist on reading their favorite book, "Goodnight" (by the same author and illustrator) every night, and I was thrilled to find another book with the same little girl, Max, Theo, JoJo, and the rest of the gang. Since the girl didn't have a name in "Goodnight", we named her Debbie, but now we know her name is Juliette! (so we now call her Debbie Juliette...). Anyway, these are MY two favorite books to read to my two favorite 2-year-olds, I can't get enough of the pictures, they are beautiful. I plan to buy this book for Christmas presents! Great simple story and dozens of things to look at on each page, again, the pictures are adorable, water-colorey...

Add to your Christmas Eve reading tradition books!
There are several things I love about this book, 1 is that the illustrator is excellent! The book is just beautiful to look at, it's a quick read and I'd love to have a stuffed dragon like hers white bandage and all!

I love the story and the excitement of Christmas day, for us parents it takes me back to my childhood and I'm sure it will do the same for you, I know it will be one of our books to read in December as well as a Christmas Eve reading along with Twas the Night Before Christmas, this book is that cute.

The last thing I love about this book is for me that I see the daughter as being adopted. I guess we all see what we choose to see and with my daughter looks exactly like the character.