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SANDRA CLAUS |
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Endorsements From Noah, Charles Dickens, And Others |
The Story Early one Christmas morning, a tiny angel delivers a baby girl in a basket to the front door of Santa's house at the North Pole. A gentle mouse named Rudy witnesses the angel deliver the basket and asks the angel what she is doing. The angel tells Rudy that the baby is her gift to Santa and Mrs. Claus, who have never had a child of their own. Santa and Mrs. Claus discover the baby girl and name her Sandra. Although she never grows to be very big, she wants to do big things. On a trip with Santa one Christmas Eve, Sandra and Rudy meet Axel, a farm cat who tells them that he gets grumpy at Christmas. Sandra figures out that Axel is grumpy because animals don't gets presents on Christmas -- only children do. Sandra decides to make presents for the animals. Rudy and Axel, who comes back to the North Pole with them, agree to help. With the help of the elves, they work hard throughout the following year to make presents for the animals, but they can't figure out how to deliver them! As Christmas Eve comes around again, Sandra and her two friends sit out on the front steps to Santa's house, feeling sad because they can't figure out how to deliver the presents they have made to the animals. Just when they're about to give up, the angel comes back to help them. She creates a tiny sleigh for Sandra, and Rudy finds out that he and his friends are mice-deer - mice who grow antlers on Christmas Eve so they can pull Sandra's sleigh through the sky! From that point on, two sleighs leave the North Pole each Christmas Eve. Santa's sleigh is filled with gifts for children and pulled by reindeer, while Sandra's sleigh is filled with gifts for the animals and pulled by mice-deer. Every one loves Sandra because she has brought Christmas to the animals! |
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