Cloth Book: Rudolph's Christmas

Rating:
Summary: It's not about Rudolph.
Review: While our 7-month-old enjoys the colors and textures of this cloth book, I don't enjoy reading it to him. Despite the title and cover illustration, the book has nothing to do with Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. Each of the book's eight pages features a brief rhyme and an illustration of a Christmas-related scene: carollers, stockings, a tree, Santa, etc. There are no reindeer mentioned or pictured in the book. Apparently this is one of those Christmases when Rudolph was left at the North Pole.

I get the distinct impression that this book was written by a middle-school student and never saw an editor's pen. The rhymes are weak and obvious, and on the last page of the book the verse inexplicably changes from present tense to past tense.