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The Thin Santa Claus: The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking

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Author(s):Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):May Wilson Preston
Publisher(s): Doubleday, Page & Company
Year Published: 1909
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Farm Life
Fiction - novel
Holidays
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 35
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 1956707

Description

On Christmas morning Mrs. Gratz wakes to find her hen house robbed of nine hens and a rooster - but the robber has left behind his purse containing nine hundred dollars. Read online at Hathitrust.

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