Christmas is coming and what can go wrong? Everything!

Feeling resentful of a royal reindeer added to the first all-girl team to pull Santa's sleigh, the "boys" do their best to sabotage the flight. To complicate matters, clouds obscure the night sky and dim the aurora borealis. The North Star is invisible, and the Naughty and Nice list flies overboard. Santa is lost in the time band. The reindeer team, one by one, start to sob. "This is going to be the worst Christmas ever," said Vixen.

Santa, ever the optimist, chuckled, "This is going to be a Christmas to remember for all time."

But how?

A Reindear Tale reimagines a beloved holiday story with overcoming prejudices, friendship, cooperation, perseverance, and surprises. Perfect at bedtime or read with an adult. It includes photographs of the author with wild reindeer in Finland above the Arctic Circle.