Review: Disappointed
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 29, 2012
Note: When I read and downloaded this book, there was no note in the description specifying that this was a preview to the series.I was not impressed with this book.  It's super short, 10 pages, of which only 5 were the actual "meat" of the book.The illustrations are beautiful and appropriately represent the content of each page.  They are not original to this book however; they are all public domain, old-fashioned illustrations of Santa in all his various personas.  While I enjoyed them myself, I don't think my 5 year old really appreciated them fully.Each page of the book includes an illustration, a blurb about the history of Santa, and questions to ask your child or things for them to find in the picture.  I thought it was a nice idea to explain Santa's origin to children in a way that is easy to understand.  My son did appreciate that and wanted to know more.  The items to find were clearly present in the images and were not difficult to find at all.  This is not a "hidden objects" type of thing.  I didn't really think these two things meshed well.  The history of Santa was nice for my 5 year old but "Point to the Christmas tree" was way beneath him.  Conversely, pointing to the Christmas tree was perfect for my 2 year old but the history was way above him.This being a free book (as of the time I'm submitting this review), I don't really think you can lose anything by downloading it.  However, I would personally not have wanted to pay money for it.  Maybe if it were longer than 5 pages.