Principal's Night Before Christmas, The (The Night Before Christmas Series)
Kindergarten-Grade 2–Principal Swell has all sorts of problems to solve involving paperwork, naughty students, and complicated field trips, and it seems that he'll never get back home to his own family for Christmas–until Santa appears and takes care of everything. Written in the same rhyme scheme as Clement C. Moore's poem, this is a lifeless recitation of mundane problems, accompanied by folksy, almost awkward illustrations that lack child appeal. Rice has illustrated many takeoffs of Moore's work, and this is one of the least successful.–E. M.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.