In the "If You Like, You'll Love" endorsements. (Or, probably more likely "if you love, you'll like" but that makes for bad promotional copy.)

James Stevenson is one of my favorite children’s writers. Like the great Daniel Pinkwater, Stevenson has a droll sense of humor that alternates between subtle, dry ironies, and outrageous comic exaggerations that he treats as nothing out of the ordinary. Pinkwater has his mischievous talking bears; here, Stevenson lets us eavesdrop on Santa’s reindeers, as if it were completely expected that they talk to each other, and that their chat would seem more like human than animal concerns: