Rollie the penguin is an expert swimmer, but what he really wants to do is fly, as he tells Santa Claus, so one Christmas Eve Santa invites him along for the ride.

The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space. Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dylan Thomas, Saki and Chekhov, as well as little-known treasures such as Italo Calvino's wry sideways look at Christmas consumerism, Wolfdietrich Schnurre's story of festive ingenuity in Berlin, Selma Lagerlof's enchanted forest in Sweden, and Irène Nemerovsky's dark family portrait. Featuring santas, ghosts, trolls, unexpected guests, curmudgeons and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time.

1, 2, 3 ... party! Five cheeky penguins are getting ready for the best celebration of the year – it's Christmas! A Christmas counting book with super-snazzy illustrations! Get your toddler excited about Christmas as they count the cheeky little penguins throughout. With a lovely squishy and shiny cover and fabulously festive scenes, this jolly little book makes a wonderfully festive present for toddlers and preschoolers. From the illustrator behind the best-selling Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam.

This is a fictional story that young children, who love to dream and own stuffed toys, will enjoy reading. Everyone dreams sometime, why shouldn't stuffed toys have dreams? Can an ordinary stuffed penguin's dream come true on Christmas Eve? Or will he be disappointed and sit, sad and alone, on the toy store shelf forever. Find out what happens as the clock ticks down to that magical hour.

Geisel Honor-winning author/illustrator Salina Yoon's beloved character Penguin celebrates the season in Penguin's Christmas Wish--a charming picture book that's perfect for the holidays. Penguin can’t wait to celebrate Christmas with his family and friends. But when things don’t go exactly as planned, Penguin learns to find holiday magic in the most unexpected places. Countless readers have already come to love the adorable Penguin, and Salina Yoon continues this series with a timeless story of holiday magic and the importance of family and friends.

THE PENGUIN CHRONICLES is a humorous book of short stories for children guaranteed to amuse adults as well. Penguins are the main characters in the stories, some of which deal with the issues associated with growing up (bullying etc.). Others are just plain fun.. There are also stories with a Penguinstein and a Werepenguin in them. The author promises that they are not too scary!

CaliClaus and the Christmas Contraption Heads the list of four delightful Christmas stories MOUNT DORA, Fla. Valerie Hart, author of The New Tradition Cookbook and The Bounty of Central Florida, Her new book for children and adults incorporates four delightful Christmas stories, with the title, CaliClaus and the Christmas Contraption (published by AuthorHouse). Harts entertaining story of a magical cat and her team of pedigree felines centers on the plight facing animals in overcrowded shelters. With her team of eight felines, she rescues two hundred cats and six dozen kittens from a local shelter. The contraption they have built from wooden planks and pieces of a wire fence is just big enough to hold all the cats as well as the food and supplies they have stockpiled. They round up eight neighborhood dogs and attach them with ropes. Then she taps the dogs with her magical claw and, with a different member of her team riding on each of the dogs, they fasten their helmets and, with her in the lead on a borrowed Harley motorcycle, the contraption rises in the air to fly gifts of love to deserving homes. The reader or listener (age 8 and older) will be enthralled with this cat that performs magic and can fly followed by a bunch of dogs pulling her contraption over the rooftops on Christmas Eve, she says. Perhaps the children will convince their parents to visit a shelter in their area to adopt a homeless animal. The second story, Peter Penguin Goes Home is equally delightful and light-hearted. Mollie and Maxie Mouse, Chuckie Chipmunk, Bubba Bunny Rabbit, and Robbie Raccoon find Santa on Christmas Eve to return Peter Penguin who has been with them since he sneaked into Santas sleigh last Christmas and got lost. Joeys Duck is a story about a boy who takes and returns - a toy duck from his neighbors bicycle basket. And, Sakies Adventure in Wonderland is a feline spoof on Lewis Carrolls Through the Looking Glass. All four stories are illustrated in color. Hart invites readers to visit her at www.cookingandtips.com.

NESTING Pen the Penguin lives with his most favorite keeper in the world: Hayakawa the Human. But Pen's no ordinary penguin... He's a neat penguin! A proper penguin! A doting penguin! Pen loves to daydream of Hayakawa's smile as he flips pancakes and folds the laundry with his teeny-tiny flippers. If only his beloved Hayakawa would notice! It's too bad Pen's human keeper is a hopelessly lazy university student, but with a little nap and some helpful friends, Pen is ready to tackle the day!

"This sweet, quirky tree-trimming adventure delivers a message about teamwork, friendship, and the importance of never giving up."