Lara's Reviews > Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

Once upon a time, Seti and I were on desk together discussing which movies we would be in charge of running at the library, and she said she wished that she could have been in charge of The Rise of the Guardians, which one of the other libraries had shown (jeez, me too--sitting through Treasure Buddies was kinda painful, ha!). I had never heard of The Rise of the Guardians, so she started telling me about it. And I was like, "a story about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy and the Sandman? Whaaaaat? Ew, no thank you!" But she insisted that it's really good, so I said I'd add the first book to my to-read list. And then she told me that Santa Claus was actually the best thief in the world, and I was like, "SOLD! I'm putting this ridiculous book about Santa Claus on hold right now!"

And so anyway, I started reading it last night and was completely smitten by the time I finished the first page, I think. Pretty soon after that there was our-neighbors-won't-keep-their-dogs-on-a-leash drama and the resulting sitting-at-the-emergency-vet-waiting-for-my-dog-to-get-staples-in-his-head-until-12:30-a.m. drama (poor little Bear!), so I couldn't finish it right away like I wanted to, but I read the rest of it today and I just totally loved it--the fairy tale quality of the storytelling, the creativity, the name of the boy with a moonbeam inside him...gosh, just the way Joyce and Geringer made Santa Claus interesting!

I can't wait to see what they do with the tooth fairy...

So, yeah. Seti was right! Guess what I'm putting on hold right now!