Santa Duck by David Milgrim

Santa Duck is a story about a duck who wants to find Santa so he can tell him what he wants for Christmas. On his way to find Santa he finds a box at his door. Inside the box is a Santa Hat and the duck proceeds to put it on. As he walks along all the characters stop duck and tell him what they want for Christmas. Duck gets frustrated and starts running away until he bumps into Santa! The duck became Santa’s helper and told him all the presents that everyone wanted… except he forgot to tell Santa what HE wanted! When he got home there was a note waiting for him from Santa thanking him for all of his help. He was Santa’s special helper and he felt proud to be and forgot all about his list, until…
I really didn’t care for this story too much. As a book to be used for a beginning reader to learn on (recommended age 3-6), I thought that the book was a little hard to follow for that age group because of the text being all over the place, sometimes in word bubbles, sometimes not. I wasn’t too keen on the story either. It seemed the message it is better to give and help than receive was overshadowed in the end by the tricked-out car that Santa Duck got.