Did you know that there is a Mrs. Claus? She is a round, rosy lady just as you would expect, and it is she who gives Santa Claus all those wonderful ideas about what to give to whom. It had been a very happy and successful combination until one year when Mrs. C. had an idea which Mr. C. considered impossible. It made him so angry he felt quite ill, and he went to sleep on Christmas Eve to recover. Now Mrs. Claus could not let that opportunity pass to put into effect her idea.

Phyllis McGinley knows all about Santa Claus, as readers of her The Year Without a Santa Claus know. That she is also well acquainted with Mrs. Claus we discover from this enchanting poem with its many rich illustrations. Here is an ageless book about an ageless subject. 

From the dust jacket