Inquiring minds want to know: 'How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?'
"How does he do it?" Author Mac Barnett and illustrator Jon Klassen squeeze, squash and generally put Santa through the wringer while trying to answer an age-old Christmas mystery.
Real talk: how does Santa get down the chimney? Mac Barnett has been wondering since he was a little kid.
"I lived in an apartment that didn't have a chimney," the author says. "So I talked a lot with my mom about how Santa was going to get into our apartment and give us gifts."
There are, of course, a lot of possible solutions.
"Does he cinch up his belt? Or shrink himself down to the size of a mouse? Or stretch out like taffy and step in one leg at a time?" Barnett hypothesizes in his aptly titled new children's book, How Does Santa Go
