Merry Un-Christmas

by Mike Reiss

Book Overview

The first Un-Christmas classic from the bestselling team of How Murray Saved Christmas. When Noelle wakes up every morning, she must put her new pony in the backyard with all of her other ponies and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060591269
• ISBN13: 9780060591267
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

All my kids love this book, one of our favorite Christmas books.

Cute story of a little girl growing up in a town where every day is Christmas, except for UnChristmas which just comes once a year. The whole town is excited for tv dinners, regular tv shows, school, and the once a year visit from the mailman. It’s a perfect way for kids to understand part of what makes Christmas special is that it’s once a year. My kids don’t ask if we could do Christmas every day anymore, but they still suggest we could do it twice. ;-)

My young nieces really like this book

They ask for it all the time, in fact, or they did until I got fed up and hid it...! It is a bit long, though, and at the end of the description of how wonderful un-Christmas is I no longer feel amused but more sad for Noelle. But the nieces find it funny still, and that's what matters.

Great fun!

My 6yo and 3yo daughters LOVED this book, which gives a new, funny perspective to the post-holiday season. I highly recommend it to any family whose kids love Christmas.

The perfect book to get you in the spirit of Christmas - and make you appreciate the fact that it co

Young Noelle and her slew of friends - Claus, Holly, and Carol - have had it with Christmas, and are ready to celebrate a Merry Un-Christmas. For you see, in Christmas City, Texmas, Christmas is celebrated 364 days a year, which means that each day you are forced to rise early and tear into hundreds of gifts, eat huge quantities of turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes, and suffer through countless holiday specials on TV. Which is why Un-Christmas is, in their opinion, the best day of the year. For it is the one day you receive mail, watch anything you'd like on TV - including "Gilligan's Island" - and go to school. It is every child's dream to celebrate Christmas each and every day of the year, except for one, of course. However, in Mike Reiss' MERRY UN-CHRISTMAS, it is quite obvious that celebrating the beloved, festive day once a year is quite enough. Noelle is an adorable character, whose boredom with Christmas Day is understandable, as is her joy to see mail arrive, and to attend school. The Seuss-like illustrations by David Catrow lacing each and every page are delightful, and truly bring this holiday tale to life - while showcasing just how un-joyful celebrating Christmas 24/7 would be. The perfect book to get you in the spirit of Christmas - and make you appreciate the fact that it comes only once a year! Erika Sorocco

Courtesy of Kids @ Teens Read Too

For Noelle, there's one day a year that she looks forward to more than any other. No, it's not Christmas, but Un-Christmas! For Noelle and her family, who live in Christmas City, Texmas, Un-Christmas is the one and only day when things are as close to normal as they can get. Noelle can go to school (since school is closed on Christmas), the mailman can finally deliver the mail (since the post office is closed on Christmas), and she can watch regular shows on television (since Christmas is filled with holiday specials and the Grinch and Scrooge). For the family that celebrates Christmas 364 days a year, Un-Christmas is a wonderful day! My kids thought, at first, that having Christmas every day of the year except one sounded like a wonderful idea. Until they realized that, like Noelle, they would soon have so many presents they wouldn't want to play with any of them. And that having a large Christmas dinner--the SAME Christmas dinner--every single day would start to get boring. And that the feeling of excitement and anticipation that comes on Christmas Day would, after celebrating it so many times, start to fade. No, they decided, Noelle is right to be so happy to see Un-Christmas come. And having Christmas once a year really is enough! Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"