Happy Santa Day!: A QUIX Book

By Alan Katz and Sernur Isik

The Elf Academy elves throw a surprise party for Santa in this third book in a series about a young elf’s merry misadventures, part of the Aladdin QUIX line of fun-to-read, short chapter books that’s perfect for emerging readers!

The elves decide to throw a super-duper surprise party for Santa, complete with gifts, treats, and decorations! Andy Snowden has a million and one ideas to make the party the best one ever. What could possibly go wrong?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aladdin
• Release date: Sep 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781534467965

Alan Katz

Alan Katz has written more than forty highly acclaimed children’s books, including Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs, The Day the Mustache Took Over, OOPS!, Really Stupid Stories for Really Smart Kids, and the New York Times bestseller Misty the Cloud, with Dylan Dreyer. Alan has received many state awards for children’s literature, and he frequently visits schools across the country.  Alan is also a six-time Emmy-nominated writer for series including The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Taz-Mania, Pinkalicious & Peterrific, numerous Nickelodeon shows, and more. He hosted a long-running game show on SiriusXM’s Kids Place Live channel, and he’s also created comic books, trading cards, theme park shows, and hundreds of other special projects for kids and their parents. 

Book preview

Cover: Happy Santa Day!, by Alan Katz, illustrated by Sernur Isik

Quix Fast * Fun * Reads

Elf Academy

Happy Santa Day!

By Alan Katz

Illustrated by Sernur Işik

Welcome to ALADDIN QUIX!

If you are looking for fast, fun-to-read stories with colorful characters, lots of kid-friendly humor, easy-to-follow action, entertaining story lines, and lively illustrations, then ALADDIN QUIX is for you!

But wait, there’s more!

If you’re also looking for stories with tables of contents; word lists; about-the-book questions; 64, 80, or 96 pages; short chapters; short paragraphs; and large fonts, then ALADDIN QUIX is definitely for you!

ALADDIN QUIX: The next step between ready to reads and longer, more challenging chapter books, for readers five to eight years old.

Happy Santa Day!, by Alan Katz, illustrated by Sernur Isik, Aladdin

To Karen, who adds a happy dose of ho ho ho!

—A. K.

Cast of Characters

Santa: Jolly gift giver

Mrs. Claus: The first lady of the North Pole

Molly: One of the reindeer at Reindeer Ranch and twin brother of Wally

Wally: One of the reindeer at Reindeer Ranch and twin brother of Molly

Roger: The rancher at Reindeer Ranch

Ms. Dow: The toy workshop teacher at Elf Academy

Andy Snowden: An Elf Academy student

Jay: Andy’s best friend

Susu: Andy’s twin sister

Zahara: