A Pee Wee Christmas

Judy Delton knew her audience and served them faithfully for forty books. A Pee Wee Christmas puts Molly and her fellow scouts through a warm December of badge work, holiday projects, and quiet concern for Mrs. Peters, who is expecting her baby. The emotional center — caring for someone you love during a season that's supposed to be about joy — is simple and genuine, and the cozy community feel the series built over nineteen prior books is fully present here. It's an early chapter book, so the plot is appropriately thin and the vocabulary controlled. The honest caveats: this works best for readers already in the series, the late-1980s cultural texture is noticeable, and the story is slight even by early-reader standards. As a holiday installment in a beloved series for grades one through four, though, it delivers exactly what its readers came for. Worth It.