The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper

by Jean Van Leeuwen

Book Overview

In comfortable residence at Macy's during the Christmas season, Merciless Marvin the Magnificent and his gang are convinced that the store's Santa Claus has been kidnapped and determine to save him. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803754159
• ISBN13: 9780803754157
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Best Christmas book!

Exciting adventure for all ages. With great character lessons . My son’s favorite. He’s 28 and it’s still his favorite. We love him to read it to us😊

One of my childhood favorites!

I bought this book about 40 years ago and still have it! It was one of my childhood favorites and I read it to my son when he was little. I hate mice but I love this book!! It is great to be able to let your imagination run wild and picture the mice coming out at night to play in the toy department or go to the delicatessen for something to eat! I recommend this to anyone ..young or old!

A Family Tradition

I purchased a copy of this book over twenty years ago when my children were young. It quickly became a favorite of ours as it also became a family tradition. Each Thanksgiving at bedtime I would begin reading a few pages to my son and daughter, and continued until the week of Christmas. My children were always as eager to hear the story no matter how many years I read it. I teach first grade and also read it to my students each year. They love it! I now am purchasing a copy for my two grandchildren so they can begin their own and continue the family tradition. A great book with a wonderful plot, dialog, and super characters. I recommend this book for parents to enjoy with their children.

Great memories

I loved this book as a kid and read it every Christmas. Now I read it to my daughters and they love it too! I highly recommend this entertaining and heartwarming story.

A Quirky Classic about Mice and Christmas. Read it anyways.

Marvin the Magnificent, Raymond and Fats are three mice out to enjoy life ... in Macy's department store. When the toy department's Santa gets kidnapped they are on the case in the best manner of old-movie private eyes. But how can three mice track him down and rescue him before Christmas? Narrated by Marvin himself, this story is absolutely hilarious. Don't be stopped by the mice. It was one of my favourite books growing up and I still recall it with great fondness (and a vague sense of irritation that my children's books got sold a few years back).There are at least three other books about this mouse trio, and I think a couple of them are still in print. This one, however, is my favourite, and worth looking for in your local library/used book store.

One of the greatest holiday tales in print.

I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of this tale one Christmas over fifteen years ago, and ever since, my dramatic reading the story one chapter a night until the finale on Christmas Eve has become a cherished family tradition. I admit I have read the other Marvin, Fats & Raymond stories as well, but this one often seems to be the one that keeps us coming back year after year. I hope the story one year take its place next to Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree & The Christmas Box. Don't miss reading this classic.

I can't believe I found it.........

AND it's not being published! Tell me where I can get it! Please! Have searched my brain for the name of this book and just got lucky. Wonderful book, from what I can remember, since I, too, read it long ago. If the reader from Tampa FL can tell me where to get it, I would be forever grateful!