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Candy Cane Lane

The last house on Candy Cane Lane does not have a single decoration because this one house can not afford any. How the little girl who lives there wishes they could have decorations, too. Then one night, batten down the hatches, there is a December blizzard on its way. In the morning, the little girl rescues a damaged outdoor choir boy decoration from a dumper to use in her yard, only to have her father put it back in the trash. At the dump, the choir boy befriends a plastic reindeer with a broken antler and a plastic ghost. Off they go to find the little girl at the end of Candy Cane Lane. They pass super highways, woods, shopping malls, and factories without luck. Then they discover a factory that makes Christmas decorations for displays. The choir boy, reindeer, and ghost are invited inside by a sugarplum fairy who’s never been outside the factory. The sugarplum fairy shows them a Santa assembly line, where the Santas are all identical. Next, the sugarplum fairy leads them into a room of “rejects.” “There was a Santa with a green coat, a camel with three humps, wise men without gifts, and a snowman who looked melted.” The choir boy tells them about the little girl on Candy Cane Lane who will “love” them all. Off they go, even though they do not know the way. The giant from the factory helps out by throwing the choir boy riding the reindeer with the broken antler up into the sky where they catch an updraft. Soon they land on the little girl’s roof and “the giant helps deliver the rest of the ornaments safely…” The little girl thanks her father ” ‘ This is the most wonderful Christmas I could ever imagine!’…And all the ornaments agreed.”

Author and illustrator, Scott Santoro has worked on such movies as The Lion King, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and Gnomeo and Juliet.