School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-Santa is missing and a variety of Arctic animals set out to find him. In bouncy rhyming couplets, they look high and low. "Clip-clop, clip-clop, two-by-two./Santa! Santa! Where are you?" They finally find him buried in a snowbank with just his snow-shoed boots sticking out. With a "Heave-Ho! Heave-Ho-Ho-Ho!," they all help to pull him out. The simple rhymes and language and the wax-crayon-and-watercolor illustrations make this an appealing, but not essential, read-aloud.-Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
The search is on when Santa's reindeer put out their version of an APB: "Clip-clop, clip-clop, two-by-two./ Santa, Santa! Where are you?" All manner of polar paws (and some fins) get in step and join the hunt on a frigid, frosty arctic night. Could prints in the snow ("Ziggy-zaggy/ tricky track./ Crisscross, crisscross/ doubles back") be a break in the case? This jaunty, fun-to-say verse has the verve of a kid-friendly whodunit. And Wheeler and Bates's (One Dark Night) snowy sleuths, most notably a gleeful belly-sliding seal pup and "bumbling-tumbling" polar cub shaking off the water from an evening dip, are not to be missed. Ages 3-7. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
