This is one of my all time favorite books. I can still remember sitting by the Christmas tree and my mom reading it to my brothers and I. Chris Van Allsburg did a wonderful job with both the illustrations and the beautiful story about believing in Christmas.
This is a wonderful Christmas story about believing in Santa Claus and hearing the ringing of one of the reindeer’s bells. A little boy wakes up in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve to a train parked in his front yard. Being curious he climbs aboard and joins all the other little boys and girls while they travel to the North Pole. Everyone is super anxious to see who Santa will give the first gift of Christmas to. After a long train ride through the dark, snowy mountains they finally they arrived at Santa’s workshop. The little boy was picked to get whatever gift he wanted; he chose to have a silver bell from one of the reindeer’s harnesses. When the little boy rings the bell he hears the most beautiful sound he has ever heard. The children get back on the train and halfway home he realizes that the pocket that he put the bell in has a hole in it and the bell has fallen out. He goes home disappointed and sad. The next morning he wakes up and is opening presents with his family and the ring is under the tree! He and his sister can hear the beautiful noise but his parents thought that it was just a broken bell. They couldn’t hear it because they didn’t believe in Santa Claus.
I would have this story in my classroom library, but I do feel like it is more of an at home read with family rather than a classroom one. Like all of his other books it is rather lengthy, but I do recommend reading it on a snowy day with a warm cup of hot coco:).
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