Worden Public Library in Dec.

The Worden Public Library will hold its annual Christmas Children’s Program on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 10 a.m. There will be two featured stories, How Santa Got His Job, and How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas?

In the first book, by Stephen Krensky, illustrated by S.D. Schindler, Santa tries a number of occupations before settling on the one he is best known for.

In How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas, Jane Yolen teaches dinosaurs, and anyone else who needs some instruction, how to comport themselves during the holiday season. Exuberant illustrations by Mark Teague show just how badly different species of dinosaurs can behave when left to their own devices.

The library will be offering free material concerning epilepsy on Friday, Dec. 8, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Robert Kellar, from the Epilepsy Foundation, will be here to answer any questions. A training session on what to do when someone has a seizure will be held in Jan.

Guest writer, Cinnabar, a Welsh corgi from Marlboro, Va., reviews The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Moore, illustrated by Tasha Tudor, Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing.

Perhaps never has this classic poem been illustrated more charmingly than in this volume.

Tasha Tudor spent a long and gracious lifetime depicting children’s stories, fashioning dolls and animals out of wool and yarn for her young relatives and friends, and generally constructing a world based on the best of olden times. Not surprisingly, she often used corgis in her most inspired paintings and drawings.

One can clearly be seen in one illustration as he helps St. Nick fill a stocking while holding Santa’s pipe firmly in his own mouth. The book receives a final rating of five tail wags (out of a possible five). It is a perfect pairing of Moore’s poetry and Tudor’s art.