This is a refresh of his 1987 book and it is filled with 32 songs with music and lyrics. Accompanying illustrations are the wonderful artworks that we expect from this great author/illustrator. This book will be a treasure to anyone that chooses to add it to their Christmas collection. Highly recommended, of course!
It’s Christmas Eve at JFK in New York City. Two travelers meet at random: Charlotte, a British student, waiting for a flight home after a terrible semester. Anthony, from NYC, is there to surprise his girlfriend at the airport who has been away for three months. Charlotte’s boyfriend has just broken up with her, and Anthony will soon face the same fate, right in the middle of the crush of people traveling for Christmas.
A blizzard cancels Charlotte’s flight, and Anthony can’t bear to go home alone. Finding a book in the gift shop titled Ten Easy Steps for Getting Over Your Ex, the two head into the city together to follow the steps outlined in the book.
With snow falling, Christmas lights and carols playing in the background, the two start falling for each other. And that’s where this reader decided that this story is just too sweet and too cliche to be even remotely realistic. It’s just too much.
Some teenagers will enjoy this short (189 pages), lighthearted, formulaic romance but honestly, there are hundreds of more sophisticated, less formulaic titles available.