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Granny McFlitter The Knit Before Christmas

By Heather Haylock, illustrated by Lael Chisholm, Penguin Random House, $19.99

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.. .. Granny McFlitter, that excellent knitter, is here to save Christmas. The zoo is all decorated for Christmas with Granny's handmade tinsel and stockings — not to mention the knitted tree and nativity scene — when a Christmas Eve disaster happens. All the decorations are ruined and the damage traced to the Christmas tree where a rare bird has grabbed them all to line its nest. What to do? Granny McFlitter comes to the rescue. Lovely rhyming verse makes this a nice story to read. — Ann Kilduff