![]() The verse mostly scans, but the rhyme scheme has become the cliché of counting books: "Eight jolly reindeer / stretching up to heaven. ![]() Donner (not Donder) and Blitzen are squeezed together on the penultimate spread, likely to keep the page count down. In what looks to be pencil-and-watercolor cartoons, Rogers uses different facial expressions, as well as collars, bows or other accessories, to distinguish the reindeer from one another. Glitter-speckled tabs, each with small portraits of a member of Santa's herd, appear at either the top or the right side of each page, which little fingers will enjoy flipping. ![]() In each one of the mostly double-page spreads, one reindeer, from Dasher to Blitzen, plays a central role in a winter activity (sledding, ski jumping, ice skating-and soccer and yoga?) that launches the creature into the air. ![]() Readers can count down eight of Santa's reindeer as they jump up and out of the scene. ![]()
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