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This year I've decided to include all the chapter books I read to my kids, since that's mostly what I get to read nowadays.

1. Nicholas St. North and the Battle with the Nightmare King - by William Joyce and Laura Geringer

I thought it was a little advanced for even my almost 8 year old. Lots of big words, on which she kept asking me for definitions. The story is interesting though, a different origin story for Santa Claus (aka Nicholas St. North), who starts out like as a warrior bandit, only to become a wizard to protect children from the Nightmare King. My 5 y.o. son liked the drawing of North's weapons.

This is the book "Rise of the Guardians" movie was based upon.


2. DC's Showcase presents "Superman" - V.1 - numerous authors.

500+ pages of old June '58 - Nov. '59 Superman comics. I felt like I got went through an intensive course on Superman reading this one, learning a bunch of Superman comic canon all in one book, including Brainiac, Krypton city in a bottle, Lex Luthor, Metallo, Lori Lemaris (the Mermaid Clark asked to marry him back in college), SuperGirl, Krypto, Mxyzptik, and Bizarro. Apparently, Lois wasn't only obsessed with Superman but that they were actually DATING. It makes her seem like she's only interested in Superman because of his super abilities.

There's also a comic where Lois gets glimpses of Superman's future wife (and children, who have super abilities from toddlerhood), but she can never see the woman's face, so she doesn't see that it's her (or whom the Reader assumes will be her).

Superman often lets people think that he's being duped, only to show it was the villain (or Lois, as the case maybe) who was being hoodwinked by Superman.

Only major annoyances were Lois trying to "trick" Superman into marrying her (her main goal in life, it seems, back then) and referring to herself as "girl reporter".



Okay, I have to admit, I read this one mostly to myself and not my kids.