Book Review: The Simpsons Xmas Book
Author: Matt Groening and Mimi Pond
Date: 1990, 1992
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0-06-096960-1
Length: pages not numbered
Illustrations: cartoons in color
Quote: “Maggie’s walking by herself. Lisa got straight A’s. And Bart, well, we love Bart.”
What Bart Simpson wants for Christmas is a tattoo that says “Mother.” The drug-damaged tattoo artist who accepts Bart’s claim that Bart is twenty-one gives him a tattoo that says “moth.” Marge spends all the money she’s been saving for the holidays to have this tattoo removed.
Homer’s boss decides at the last minute not to give out any Christmas bonuses. Rather than share this news with his family, Homer retreats into anger, throws a tantrum, screams that “Christmas is cancelled,” and sneaks out to buy really cheap presents. “And for me, some breath mints...which the family will appreciate too.”
Can Christmas be more than a shopping spree for the Simpsons...or for real, three-dimensional people who have no religion? If you’ve not already learned the answer on TV, you need the book. If you enjoyed the TV special, you might want the book as a souvenir. Every Simpsons collection needs the Xmas Book.
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