cover image Alvin and the Chipmunks: A Chipmunk Christmas with Sound and Music

Alvin and the Chipmunks: A Chipmunk Christmas with Sound and Music

Running Press. Running Press, $19.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7624-4607-0

Alvin and the Chipmunks%E2%80%99 1981 television special gets restaged as a padded oversize book. When Alvin takes pity on a sick boy and gives him his Golden Echo Harmonica, he has nothing to play at the Chipmunks%E2%80%99 concert at Carnegie Hall. In the end, though, his kindness is rewarded. Picture prompts correspond to battery-activated sound panels that play dialogue and five songs, including %E2%80%9CDeck the Halls%E2%80%9D and %E2%80%9CThe Chipmunk Song.%E2%80%9D The cheerful digital images and familiar songs should draw nostalgic adults as well as young readers. Ages 4%E2%80%938. (Oct.)