Description
The Curious Cruise of Captain Santa
by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Illustrated by John R. Neill
Join Santa Claus, Huggerumbo the polar bear, and Jim the chimney sweep as they set sail on the good ship Chimneypot for a holiday adventure in search of new Christmas presents! Visit Candy Island for delicious treats, then sail beyond the sunset to Rockaway Island filled with rocking wooden animals.
This cheerful and cozy adventure, first published in 1926, is in the best Oz book tradition of Ruth Plumly Thompson’s Pirates in Oz and Captain Salt in Oz—and is wonderfully illustrated by long-time Oz illustrator John R. Neill.
This black-and-white facsimile edition was published in 1985 by The International Wizard of Oz Club and features a new foreword by Douglas G. Greene. Hungry Tiger Press has secured all of the remaining copies, and we are delighted to offer this charming holiday book to a new and wider audience.
The Curious Cruise of Captain Santa, a work first published in 1926, contains some racial and ethnic references that may be offensive to modern readers. Readers should be aware, however, that these do not reflect the attitudes of Hungry Tiger Press and that they merely reflect the language, and its usage, of the early twentieth century.
