Murray Christmas
By (Author) E. G. Keller
Abrams
Abrams Books for Young Readers
29th September 2023
27th October 2022
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Celebrations, holidays, festivals and spec
813.6
Hardback
40
Width 254mm, Height 254mm
From bestselling Marlon Bundo illustrator E. G. Keller comes a hilarious "first Christmas" story told from a dogs perspectiveIn this laugh-out-loud funny and charming holiday tale, lovable "patrol dog" Murray is put on high alert by all of the sudden changes around the holidaysfrom the tree in the living room to the laundry mistakenly hung by the fireplace, threats lurk everywhere! And worst of all Some random guy in a red suit keeps showing up everywhereand Murray is not impressed. Can he learn to embrace the festivities, or will Murrays misguided attempts to protect his family ruin Christmas
**STARRED REVIEW**
"This is a perfect Christmas read-aloud; children will want to take this book--and Murray--home." -- "School Library Journal"
"With understated comic storytelling and elegant, watercolorlike digital drawings, Keller's holiday fable has the lighthearted wit of vintage New Yorker covers." -- "Publishers Weekly"
E. G. Keller is the illustrator of the New York Times #1 bestseller Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, and the picture book To the Moon and Back for You by Bravo star Emilia Bechrakis Serhant. As Gerald Kelley, he illustrated documentarian Ken Burnss New York Times bestselling book Grover Cleveland, Again!, and wrote and illustrated the picture book Please Please the Bees, which won the 2017 Frances and Wesley Bock Book Award for Childrens Literature and was read aloud for Storyline Online by Rashida Jones. He lives in Denver.