Review: A wonderful Yuletide read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 22, 2012
This is a gem of a book...written by someone who not only played the part of "Santa" at a mall, but took the job responsibilities to heart.  The book is written in vignettes or short scenes; featuring Stew's encounters with various children and adults as he works for over a month as the Jolly Old Elf.  Some stories can bring a tear to the eye, or squeeze the heartstrings. Others make you want jerk some sense into rude inconsiderate people. Some are just plain funny. Taking all the stories together as a whole, this little book imparts a core gem of wisdom as to the real meaning of the Season, and how, in the right hands, even the hoopla and commercialism of the modern Christmas madness can be neutralized by a truly compassionate, gentle and steady heart.  I will never see a "mall Santa" in the same light again.  I sincerely hope that there are more Stews out there....reaching out with love to the young and the young at heart!