Sleighless Usually, pre-Christmas at Santas workshop is hectic with toy building in full swing, but not this year. Toy production is ahead of schedule and will not need help from the grandmas and the grandpas. Santa rewards the elves with some well-deserved R&R, but rest and relaxation is not agreeable to Ric. He must prove to Santa that the boy elves are superior toy makers and athletes. Ric challenges the girl elves to an assortment of athletic events, and thats when disaster strikes. What, no sleigh to deliver toys and when you think it cant get worse, it does. Santa has a big problem. If you know how to build sleighs, please contact Santa, North Pole. He needs your help.

Disaster at the Pole Year after year, Christmas happens as predicted, but not this year. This spring, the weather was very warm at the North Pole, causing unusual climate conditions. While Santa was away on a robot-buying trip, disaster strikes Crystal Valley. The inventory of manufactured toys, gadgets, and gizmos is totally destroyed, and the elves were lucky to save themselves and the reindeer. With six months to Christmas, Santa needs help and sends out an SOS, save our shop. Grandmas and grandpas from around the world respond to save Christmas yet again. Hold on tight, lots of up and downs with an unusual happy ending.

What happens when the Elves come down with colds am week before Christmas? Santa Claus call on special helpers to work his magic! Can the grandpas and grandmas from around the world save Christmas? Join Santa and his friends on this incredible journey to find out.

THEM: Thoughtless, Heartless, Emotionless Machines. At the North Pole, Santa is quickly realizing that children's toy preferences are changing to electronic gadgets and gizmos-and the days of traditional wooden toys "made with hands and hearts" may be over. Kids want toys that talk, walk, play games, and do their homework, and Santa does not want any disappointed children on Christmas morning. In order to keep up with the demand, Santa must purchase "THEM"-thoughtless, heartless, emotionless machines-to help build the electronic gadgets. The problem? The machines are well beyond the elves' technology and capabilities, and they'll need help from the grandmas and grandpas. With only seventeen weeks to Christmas Eve, there is much work to do, and it'll take a team of grandmas, grandpas, and elves working at a feverish pace to get things running as smoothly as a spinning top. But such a toy-changing decision does not come without challenges and problems, and "problem" is one word Santa does not want to hear. Hang on to your hat-it's going to be a wild ride in elfdom in How the Grandmas & Grandpas Saved Christmas, Again-dedicated to those who believe in the spirit of giving, the magic of Christmas, and Santa Claus himself.

""Secretariat" is an elegantly crafted, exhilarating tale of speed and power, grace and greatness, told with such immediacy that the reader is lost in the rush of horses and the clatter and ring of the grandstand." --Laura Hillenbrand, bestselling author of "Seabiscuit" Updated with a new preface by the author In 1973, Secretariat, the greatest champion in horse-racing history, won the Triple Crown. The only horse to ever grace the covers of "Time," "Newsweek," and "Sports Illustrated" in the same week, he also still holds the record for the fastest times in both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. He was also the only non-human chosen as one of ESPN's "50 Greatest Athletes of the Century." The tale of "Big Red" is an enduring and inspiring classic, more than thirty years after its initial publication.