Jim Durk

It's Christmas Eve, and Clifford the Small Red Dog is worried because he doesn't have a Christmas present for Emily Elizabeth. The one he does end up giving is corny, so the sooner forgotten the better.

I'm much more interested in what crappy thing her father, Mark Howard, must have done that he is giving his wife a big, fancy necklace. Is Clifford not the only dog in the family? Is there another reason the family has to relocate to Birdwell Island in the near future other than Clifford's size? Hmmmm.

Actually, the most interesting thing about this book is my daughter never bothered to do the stickers when she got this at six years old, so she tried to do it this year at twenty-two and had trouble with the tricky placement required to get the secret correct answers that the sticker designer built into the book. Some stickers took several minutes of analysis and discussion about perspective and required conjecture about the creator's intentions. Oh my.… (mere)