The Ninth Reindeer
Your child draws a reindeer. On Christmas Eve, it comes alive.
Every book is one of a kind — personalized with your child's photo, name, and favorite things, in the illustration style your family loves.
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About This Story
It starts at the table, with crayons: your child draws a reindeer. Six legs? A purple nose? Perfect. They tape it in the window for Santa — and on Christmas Eve, when one of Santa's reindeer is too sneezy to fly, Santa taps the glass and that exact drawing steps off the paper and into the snow. It flies terribly. It loops and wobbles. But when the storm comes down and the sleigh is lost, its special power — whatever your child says it is — is exactly what saves the night. Photograph your child's real drawing, and the reindeer in the book will look exactly like it.
The moment it lands
Your child draws a reindeer and tapes it in the window. On Christmas Eve, Santa taps the glass — and that exact drawing steps into the snow, alive. It flies terribly, all loops and wobbles, until the storm comes and its special power, the one your child invented, leads Santa's sleigh home. On Christmas morning, the drawing has a tiny silver bell that nobody drew.
Why it stays on the nightstand
Your child is the artist of this book. Their real drawing — however wobbly — becomes Santa's ninth reindeer, painted to look exactly like it, and the special power they invent for it is what saves the night. It tells a child that the way they see things is not wrong, it is needed. Keep the drawing with the book.
What it quietly teaches
Self-Awareness: Confidence in one's own creativity, and seeing a difference become a strength
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Every book is painted fresh from your child's photo — no two are alike!
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We Weave the Story
Your child's name, their face, their beloved bear, stitched through every verse and every page. No two books alike.
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What Parents Say
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