Dominic Catalano

While Santa is on his journey, Mrs. Claus and her helpers step out of the house, leaving the door ajar, and three white bears find their way inside, in a Christmas story that reverses the old tale of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears."

Thinking his friends have forgotten him at Christmas, Old Armadillo goes to sleep, but he awakens to find that his friends have decorated his house and a tree for the holiday.

Combines rhyme and prose to retell the story of Sleeping Beauty, casting the heroine as the daughter of King and Queen Dormouse, who falls into a long, deep, sleep, but awakens to find her dreams of love have come true.

Mouse enjoys living on his island but feels that something is missing from his life until the day he performs a daring rescue and acquires an unlikely friend.