Santa's Little Reindeer

By Val Neubecker

A Christmas story for the young ones – and the young at heart.

An energetic little reindeer has a dream.  When he grows up, he really wants to become one of the reindeer who pulls Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve.  It's all he talks about and the other young reindeer are getting rather tired of hearing all about it.  Now it's Christmas Eve now and there's a big problem.  The problem gets solved but shortly after, an even bigger problem arises.  What can one clumsy little reindeer do?

13 little chapters, approx. 3300 words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Val Neubecker
• Release date: Oct 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393502227

Val Neubecker

Val lives in Perth, Australia. She wrote scripts and songs for a theatre restaurant for 18 years and has had three children’s books published.  Poems, short stories and plays have been published in the NSW School Magazine and NZ School Journal. She recently diversified into music and has a published book of children’s Christmas songs, ‘Ho! Ho! Ho! & Other Christmas Songs’, for which she composed the music and wrote the lyrics.  She has also written a children’s Christmas musical. Val is the Poetry Coordinator for Creative Connections, an organisation where poets write poems to artworks created by artists with disabilities.

Book preview

The North Pole

‘Oops, sorry!’

‘Not again!  Watch where you’re going.’

The little reindeer was always getting in the way.  He might be the smallest one but he was just so energetic and bouncy – and excitable.  His antlers looked a bit lop-sided because he was always bumping into all the other young reindeer.

And today he was super excited.

Of course, everyone was excited because it was nearly Christmas Eve.  Santa’s team of elves had been working hard to make enough gifts for all the children around the world.  The gifts were piled up high in the workshop.  The Head Elf was walking around with Santa’s long list trailing down behind her.  She was working her way through the list, selecting gifts and ticking them off.  What a big job!

In the next building was Santa’s gigantic sleigh.  It had just been serviced and it had been cleaned and polished to a bright shine.  Now it was sitting in the hangar ready to be loaded with all the gifts.

The little reindeer peeked into the hangar and looked at the sleigh.

‘They’ll all be here tomorrow,’ he yelled..

‘Who?’  The other young reindeer rolled their eyes.  As if they didn’t know.

‘Santa’s reindeer, of course.’

Of course.  They all knew that he was always thinking about Santa’s