How Santa Lost His Job Stephen Krensky Book

Having automated the workshop to move things along faster, Santa and his elves find that they have pushed themselves out of the process, but when the computers go awry, it's up to Santa and his friends to get things back on track using old-fashioned techniques. Reprint.

It's a nicely told story, with excellent detailed illustrations by S. D. Schindler. And it comes with the fine moral that even fat old slowpokes can do some things better than machines.

Christopher Buckley, New York Times Book Review, 12/02/2001