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Overview

Auntie Claus is just another eccentric New Yorker—or is she? Young Sophie has often wondered about her unusual great-aunt, Auntie Claus. She lives in penthouse 25C at the Bing Cherry Hotel and is so curioso! After all, Auntie Claus serves Christmas cookies all year long and her tree is always the best-decorated in the city. And then there's her annual "business trip," right around the holidays. This year Sophie is determined to get to the bottom of Auntie Claus's mysterious ways. Put on your mittens and bundle up for an adventure beyond your wildest dreams. Ho, ho, ho!

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Overview

Auntie Claus is just another eccentric New Yorker—or is she? Young Sophie has often wondered about her unusual great-aunt, Auntie Claus. She lives in penthouse 25C at the Bing Cherry Hotel and is so curioso! After all, Auntie Claus serves Christmas cookies all year long and her tree is always the best-decorated in the city. And then there's her annual "business trip," right around the holidays. This year Sophie is determined to get to the bottom of Auntie Claus's mysterious ways. Put on your mittens and bundle up for an adventure beyond your wildest dreams. Ho, ho, ho!

When her eccentric Auntie Claus leaves for her annual business trip, Sophie stows away in her luggage, travels with her to the North Pole, and discovers that her aunt is really Santa's sister and helper.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
A healthy dose of holiday magic abounds in a picture book poised to make a big splash. A little bit Auntie Mame, a little bit Coco Chanel, Sophie Kringle's glamorous great-aunt lives in a penthouse atop Manhattan's Bing Cherry Hotel. Auntie Claus disappears every holiday season on a mysterious business trip and, determined to discover her destination, Sophie stows away and follows her. Larded with scrumptious visual foreshadowing, Primavera's hilariously arch gouache and pastel illustrations are the highlight of this merry confection. Ages 4-8. (Oct.) FYI: The author has established a Web site for the book at www.auntieclaus.com, and Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City has chosen Primavera's tale as the theme for its holiday window display. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
From The Critics
A grand, if unsubtle, cousin to William Joyce's Santa Calls (1993). Smug little rich girl Sophie Kringle has a great-aunt who lives in high style atop the palatial Bing Cherry Hotel, vacating only for her mysterious annual "business trip" between Halloween and Valentine's Day. One year, Sophie stows away in Auntie Claus's luggage, and ends up at the North Pole, pressed into hard service as an elf. When she catches sight of the Bad-Boys-And-Girls list, and finds her little brother's name on it, she reacts with uncharacteristic, newly mustered compassion, erasing his name and adding her own in it's place; suddenly she's sharing a stage with Auntie, who turns out to be Santa's sister and, having learned that it is better to give than to receive ("the first and final rule," as Auntie calls it), is whisked home just in time for Christmas. Tall and slender in fur-trimmed red, Auntie Claus cuts as elegant a figure amidst the North Pole's snowy bustle as she does in her sparsely appointed New York digs; most of Primavera's expansive scenes are underlit to add an air of mystery, and presided over by looming background figures: Santa, the Statue of Liberty, a huge, moon-faced snowman. A promising bid for holiday bestsellerdom. (Picture book. 6-8)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780152019099
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 9/28/1999
  • Pages: 40
  • Sales rank: 219,154
  • Age range: 4 - 9 Years
  • Lexile: AD410L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 9.68 (w) x 11.26 (h) x 0.38 (d)

Meet the Author

Elise Primavera
Elise Primavera

ELISE PRIMAVERA has illustrated many books for children, including the bestselling Auntie Claus, which she also wrote, and Raising Dragons by Jerdine Nolen, which was honored with the Christopher Award. She lives in New Jersey.

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  • Posted January 27, 2012

    Highly Recommended

    This was a wonderful holdiay book that I shared with my niece and nephew, ages 6 and 9. They loved the story and the pictures. We read it many times during the holidays! The next Auntie Claus book is on their reading list!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 30, 2010

    Great series

    The Auntie Claus books are great read aloud books for the holidays. The children love them & so do the parents.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 16, 2009

    Outstanding read to Grand Daughter

    All I can say is that reading this to and with my 7 yo grand daughter was a delight.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 12, 2007

    The Amazing Mr. McSheehy's Class Book Review

    We enjoyed Auntie Claus and thought it was magical. We thought that the illustrations were outstanding. It was funny at some points and we really liked Mr. Pudding. The rest is for us to know and you to find out!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 14, 2007

    A reviewer

    We loved this magical story and we loved the adventuresof Auntie Claus. We, also, loved the magical ride of the elevator.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 31, 2003

    Great Pictures!!

    I bought this book and the sequel for my niece and we both loved it!! The story was fun and the imaginative pictures were just as entertaining!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 13, 2000

    INCREDIBLE

    This book is excellant. My girls loved it and I believe they actually learned from it. I enjoyed reading it and would do it again and again. I only just read the book and already have recommeded it to my co-workers.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 13, 1999

    a reviewer

    I think that it is a very good book.It would be a good chapter book. I would like to see a continuation of the book. I think this book deserves a place on everyone's shelf. I like this book because it really fits the season. The lesson of this book is something we could all learn from. It was so good, a classmate sent it to her cousin in New York. I like the book because it brings alot of light to the Christmas season. The illustrations are wonderful! We all agreed that this story made us think.

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    Posted February 9, 2009

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