Review Detail

Guess Who? Merry Christmas to You!

Kids Fiction 308

The Gift Recipient at the End of this Book

November 30, 2025 (Updated: June 30, 2026)

Overall rating

4.0

Plot

4.0

Characters

4.0

Writing Style

4.0

Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)

4.0

A festive penguin has a gift to deliver. waddling through the snow, he opens a door to give it to an elf. In turn, the elf travels to open a door, and the story continues until the final gift is delivered to a door behind which is a mirror.

This short story is told in rhyming verse with the repetition of "he/she has a gift/ but who's it for?" which will make this a fun and easy read aloud for a very young child. It's also good for practicing prediction. The cast of characters is all very Christmasy, with a reindeer, fox, polar bear, and Santa rounding out the crew.

Good Points

The illustrations have a very Infographic, geometric feel to them, and I loved that each previous house was shown in the background of the next page. The doors are all decorated in distinctive ways. There are also plenty of fun details outside they doors that give clues to who might be inside. I particularly enjoyed the polar bear's wreath of fish!

Mirrors are a lot of fun for babies, and there should be a lot of giggles for children of a certain age who will be pleased to see themselves in the book. I wasn't able to test the audio version available through a QR code, but I can imagine this being very useful, since this is a book that will be requested frequently for read alouds!

If you are looking for a secular holiday book for a young reader, this is a great choice for a stocking stuffer along with titles like Ingela P Arrhenius' My BIG Playbook: Christmas, Dexet's Slide and Peek Santa, Austin's Pocket Piggies: Christmas or Trukhan's The Great Big Christmas Tree Hunt .