Santa's Song is a word-play of the Christmas classic "We Wish You A Merry Christmas." The idea is kind of fun for younger children as playing with words helps them develop language, but the execution is poor. "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" does not offer much in the way of lyrics when you switch up letters. There are no pictures and it is just pages of the same thing over and over again with 2/3 of the alphabet. The idea could have been improved with just a little extra effort on illustrations and perhaps limiting the examples to a handful, or trying it with a variety of Christmas music, and showing the reindeer, elves, and Santa singing the silly songs.

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I was hoping that this book would have a fun song about Santa but instead, it has renditions of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" using different letters from the alphabet, i.e. "Be bis bou a berry Bhristmas". If you're looking to have some fun with your little one, I guess this could be it but I'd rather have my little one sing the song correctly.

I got this book as an ARC reader and reviewer for Netgalley.
I got this book to review and read to my four year old as a bedtime story and it was not what I thought it was going to be.
I was disappointed with the book because it was just a quirky way of sing a Christmas song and not really a children's story. I hate giving this book a low star level, but it was a disappointment for me and my daughter.

“Santa’s Song” had so much potential, but it ended up being super disappointing. All it consisted of was “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” done different ways. There weren’t even illustrations. It’s something you could figure out easily on your own or search for on the Internet.

A fun Christmas caroling book with a silly twist. Kids & parents will sure have a fun time with this book!

I was really disappointed in this book. Yes they are Christmas songs in it but there's no picture at all. This is a children's book and there should be at least illustrations of Christmas and Santa if there is going to be Christmas songs in it. I would not recommend this book there are much better Christmas books with songs in it on the market.

I wasn't too enamored with this book. However, I can see it being a lot of fun for kids, and singing the song could become a Christmas tradition. I can also see a kid singing it the entire 400 mile trip to Grandma's.

I was so excited to read this book. Cover was adorable, however so disappointed inside the book. There was not any color other than black and white and I don't think it would hold a young child's attention. I think the context of the book would be ok for an older child however I am not sure an older child would pick it because of the cover being v
Rey cherry but younger child looking.

I did not enjoy this one at all. I did not like it.

The cover is lovely, the idea is cute, singing a stanza or two may get you giggling, but it reminds me of trying the sing the Three Stooges B A Bay song, it gets old really fast. There are no pictures other than the cover, which may be ok as an e-book, but as a "picture book" for kids, it is bor-ing. Each page has a letter to begin that repetition of the song, and the lyrics with the letter of the page used in the lyrics. Think of the "I like to eat eat eat eeples and beeneenees", where each stanza changes with the featured letter. The song is silly, and is good for perhaps elementary school age kids who get the idea, and will sing it together and laugh. As a story time librarian, I would steer away from it, as it would get a little redundant. I wanted to like the book, the cover is lovely. The content, not so great.

Entertaining and fun to read with kids. Great illistrations. Love anything about Christmas. Singing is fun for kids. Would recommend this book.

Santa's Song should be in the hands of every one that celebrates Christmas, every preschool/kindergarten teacher and at every library story hour around the holiday time. Really funny cute illustrations and done in such a style that kids, as well as adults will have a good time singing Santa's Song.!

Kids will get a kick out of this song! Kind of like the Name Game song we liked to sing as kids! Parents might enjoy it , too.

Not as fun as I thought it would be. The author has taken the song “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” and turned it into the Banana song. You know, Anna Anna Bo Banna. Each verse replaced the first first letter of the alphabet with a single letter so you get “Be Bish Bo A Berry Bhristmas…” So not only is the “song” kind of lazy, there are virtually no illustrations. The have some fancy lettering at the top of each page to represent the letter, but other than that, just black words on a white background. BORING! This book is a fail, and it failed hard!

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This story starts out with a small introduction to the background of the song “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.” It then proceeds to go on to tell the reader how to play the “Santa Song” game. While this is a cute idea, I wouldn’t be fooled by the beautiful art on the cover into purchasing this book. I feel like the game is something you would find tagged to a Christmas board on Pinterest. Children may find it fun, I found it needless and senseless. This book could have been better had it had more games and songs in it.

I picked up this. I'll thinking it would be fun- as a children's book. I also love Chris books. But, no. Didn't see anything even interesting about it. I thought it was just silly.

I love the cover of this book, that's probably my favorite part. The idea behind it is really cute and as someone who is around children a lot, I can say this would probably be a very entertaining little game to them. I gave this 3 stars simply because while I love the idea and the interactiveness it brings, I wasn't really wowed by the concept/story. With that being said, this book would make for a cute startup tradition of a silly Christmas song to sing with your kids.

Wasn't really a fan of this book, it was ok and I can see it being a firm favourite for some but I thought it was a bot confusing and it didn't really flow.

Santa's Song is an easy-to-use concept. Take the song "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and change the beginning consonant. The book makes it effortless providing a verse for each letter. This would be a great songbook for a preschool class reviewing their letter sounds along with a visual cue for the consonant. There are few illustrations in the book except for the beautiful cover.

This was a bit of a disappointment, and perhaps a good example of 'don't judge a book by its cover' - or the section under which it's filed. Touted as a children's book, and with a fun, visually appealing cover, I was hoping for a cool Santa-inspired sing-aloud that my little one would love, or an illustrated song-like tale that was full of fun. Something like that.

Instead, this is basically a very simple twist on a well-known song, repeated over and over, with no illustrations and little to no visual appeal as you turn the pages. In fact, once you work out where it's going, there's no real need to keep turning the pages.

There's a charming introduction about caroling, the origins of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", and some fun-filled 'facts' about Santa's elves and reindeer, but after that this book is just 20 pages of near-repetition. Although this could perhaps make for a fun sing-along with the family (if they were in the right mood), the whole thing could be summed up in a two-line note in a Buzzfeed-style listicle about 'adding fun twists to traditional Christmas carols', rather than 20 pages of book.

It just doesn't feel like a children's book at all (though the front and backcover illustrations are lovely). A missed opportunity, perhaps.