Nathan Hacks Santa, by Elaine Spanner (Friesen Press, 2025, 44pp HB, up to 12 years of age)
The title tells it all!
It's almost Christmas and Nathan is sure he is on Santa's Naughty List, so why even try to be good at this late a date? It's also much more fun pulling pranks on people! And one of them that he is working on is how to guess Santa's password* so he can create more havoc up in the North Pole toy shops. Nathan spends days - and pages, trying to guess the right password and finally he is lucky, ready to do some creative and felonious deeds.
The downside is Nathan's dislike of getting only coal for Christmas so his practical jokes have to be really good to make up for the black stuff. And good they are!
Now, there comes a time in every movie that I realize there are only a few minutes left and I have no idea if the characters will be able to pull off a believable ending or not. I thought the same thing when reading Nathan Hacks Santa - how is this book going to end? How will Nathan repent in his ways and have a Merry Christmas? Will he be able to? Will he learn a lesson in kindness and goodness and ethics or will this book end up in the air? Will Nathan be able to help Santa?
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*Nathan asks Santa what he likes doing in his spare time, and still it takes him a long time to figure out the password. Can you beat him?
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