Book excerpt: Have you ever thought about just what Santa gets up to in the days leading up to Christmas day? Perhaps you've wondered how Santa met his reindeer, or even why the ones that he keeps company with seem to be able to fly - when the ones that you might have bumped into clearly can't? You might even be interested to know what other arrangements Santa had in mind for pulling his sleigh around before he gave the job to a bunch of reindeer? Well ""Santa's Christmas Run-In"" is just for you, with a day by day account of exactly what Santa had to do one particular December so that he could deliver presents to all the children Ð and to you Ð on Christmas day. It all begins one cold, windy night in a snowy field far, far away, when a voice is heard from up high and a big round thing falls with a ""THUMP!"" from out the sky.