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Lyle at Christmas / written and illustrated by Bernard Waber.

ISBN: 0395913047
ISBN: 9780395913048
ISBN: 0618380027
ISBN: 9780618380022
Physical Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Waber, Bernard. : (author.). Houghton Mifflin Company,: (publisher.).

Summary:

Christmas is an especially festive time for everyone's favorite crocodile, Lyle. Lyle loves Bird and Loretta the cat, who live with Mr. Grumps. He loves East 88th Street and the house he shares with the Primms, and his mother. Lyle's only problem is that he can't decide what he wants for Christmas. However not everyone is filled with holiday cheer. Mr. Grumps has the holiday blues--so much so that even his adored cat, Loretta, has had it with miserable Mr. Grumps. And then, just a few days before Christmas Loretta disappears and the entire neighborhood joins Mr. Grumps in the hunt for the lost cat. Now Lyle knows exactly what he wants for Christmas--the safe return of his good friend. Will he be able to find Loretta before Christmas and restore the holiday cheer to East 88th Street?