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Scared of Santa: Scenes of Terror in Toyland | 
 enlarge | Authors: Denise Joyce, Nancy Watkins
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 30203
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6 x 4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0061490997
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.26630222
EAN: 9780061490996
ASIN: 0061490997
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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blockquote p He's huge and hairy and hulking. br He dresses in strange furry clothing. br He sneaks into people's homes at night.br Who wouldn't be afraid of . . . Santa Claus?!? /p /blockquote p Nothing says Christmas quite like innocent children shrieking with terror as a stranger dressed in red drags them kicking and screaming onto his lap. Now this time-honored rite of passage is celebrated with a hilarious collection of more than two hundred and fifty priceless photos of kids' traumatic trips to Santa's workshop. iScared of Santa/i offers a cornucopia of photographic funnies#8212;from sixty-year-old family heirlooms to last year's howlers#8212;along with delightful commentary on those unforgettable childhood visits to scary ol' Saint Nick. /p
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 great book but NOT made well December 31, 2008
This is a great book ... but it is NOT made well at all. We have read it ONCE and it is already falling apart!!!!!!
 A Perfect Christmas Coffee Table Book! December 29, 2008
Hilarious book! My son is on page 18, but I would have bought it no matter what! It's a great stocking stuffer, and makes a great coffee table book for the holidays. Nothing says Christmas like pure terror on a child's face!
Hilarious! December 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As if the pictures alone weren't enough, the accompanying captions make this book absolutely hilarious. Definitely worth ten bucks. I brought my copy in to work (left it in the lunch room) and everyone (even my Jewish co-workers) got a laugh out of it!
Disgusting December 15, 2008
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book is child pornography. I worked one season as a mall Santa and will never do it again. I thought a trip to see Santa should always be fun, However, I found that 5-10% of the business was taking pictures with children who were afraid of me.br /br /I was absolutely disgusted by all the cruel, thoughtless parents who would inflict emotional distress on a child and buy a picture for a souvenier. Not only is it cruel to children to be forced to sit on the lap of a stranger they are afraid of, it isn't a pleasant experience for an elderly man to constantly get his knees kicked and his beard pulled.br /br /What is worse is the knowledge that I could get great pictures with these kids all day long if their idiot parents would stop ten feet away and let their kids approach me at their own pace.br /br /The scum who published this book and the unfit parents who submitted the pictures need lumps of coal and one of Santa's boots for Christmas!
 The universal family experience, with or without Santa December 9, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
To the reviewer(s) who scold the authors for snickering at children's fear, I think you're missing the essence of this book. It's not making fun of children or their fears. It's making fun of the ridiculous ritual itself, and the adults who insist on it despite this all-too-common result.br /br /Even those of us (like me) who wouldn't dream of plopping our kids on a Mall Santa's lap can relate to the universal parental experience: real life isn't like a Christmas card. The best-laid plans of mice and moms oft go awry...and you'll be better off if you can laugh at it.
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