Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Here Comes Zelda Claus, and Other Holiday Disasters
Lynn Hall · 1989
74/100
👍 Worth It
Zelda is a genuinely funny, memorable protagonist — the kind of kid who carries a book by sheer force of personality — and the holiday-by-holiday structure makes it easy to pick up and put down or read aloud in segments. Out of print and a bit harder to find than it deserves to be, but School Library Journal's praise for her 'audacious aplomb' is on the money.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety90
substance70
craft76
originality74
accuracy78
hype72
age-fit84
human-eye74
Penny’s verdict74
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