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The Night the Lights Went Out on Christmas

The illustrations are fun.  The general story line is good: about a block where the buildup of Christmas lights and holiday decorations keep growing over the years until it’s completely overwhelming, and in the end the lights go out completely, and they all get a chance to appreciate the beauty of the stars above.  But it’s got some issues:  I realize the ability of astronauts to see the Christmas lights from space, and the tripping of the switch spreading the black-out world-wide are exaggerations for effect, but it didn’t really seem necessary; there are these big bold letters declaring that this book comes with a free song, but when you go to the website to download the link, it’s not so much a song as a reading of the story (presumably by the author), with quiet guitar strumming in the background.  Though the online reader did a fine job of reading it smoothly, I found the flow of the text a bit disjointed, with an inconsistent rhyming pattern.