P.T. Grumbles

By Helen Stehlin Hunter

An illustrated children's Christmas story about a grouchy author, a surprise

visit from Santa Claus, and a lost family found.

P.T. Grumbles is a writer and critic who's finishing up a large round of

interviews with "the most famous people in the world" for publication as a

book. When he's nearly finished with the work, a young child of one of the

interviewees asks him if he's going to include an interview with Santa.

Grumbles is attracted to this idea and decides that it would be a fitting

conclusion for his book. Although he despises the Christmas holiday-his

adoptive parents always made it a miserable experience-he decorates his

house to lure Santa in on Christmas Eve and request an exclusive. The plan

works: Santa agrees to talk to Grumbles but says that the writer must travel

with him on his gift-giving rounds. Along the way, Grumbles asks Santa

questions about how he can possibly deliver presents to all the children in

the world, how his reindeer can fly, and how Santa gets into homes that lack

chimneys; however, the jolly old elf's answers are vague and mysterious.

Soon, Santa asks Grumbles about his past and then enlists his help for a

delivery-an event that changes the course of the writer's life forever!

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1641610042
• ISBN13: 9781641610049
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Finstock & Tew, LLC
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"