I suspect that the wombat-reindeer rivalry here is meant to be a substitute, and the expression on the faces of some of the reindeer is often quite amusing, but it just isn't quite the same thing. That said, I don't know that it is quite the equal of the other two books, owing perhaps to the dearth of wombat-human interaction, which made the first two book especially hilarious. Like its two predecessors, Christmas Wombat (originally published in Australia as Diary of a Christmas Wombat) is an amusing tale, one with an obliviously appealing heroine, entirely focused upon her own schedule (often to the detriment of her human neighbors), and charming artwork that perfectly captures the droll humor of the tale. Quickly putting that to rights, she claims her proper role as the carrot-consumer, eventually tagging along on the creatures' sleigh, and enjoying a carroty meal at every stop. The single-minded phascolomian heroine of author Jackie French and illustrator Bruce Whatley's hilarious Diary of a Wombat and Diary of a BABY Wombat returns in this charming holiday picture-book, discovering that she 'never knew there were so many carrots in the world.' Going about her daily routine of sleeping, scratching, sleeping, and then eating, Wombat is surprised to find a cache of carrots one day, and to see some strange creatures eating them.

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