The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg is a magical children’s book, full of all the magic and excitement of an impending Christmas season. It’s beautiful at any age, and the movie is pretty good too, and so today it’s our advent calendar selection as we count down yet another day to Christmas.
Every day of the festive season, we’re bringing you a snippet, poem or excerpt from literature, helping you get in the mood for he big day, and suggesting some fun festive reads as we go. Here’s our magical excerpt from The Polar Express.
We traveled through cold, dark forests, where lean wolves roamed and white-tailed rabbits hid from our train as it thundered through the quiet wilderness.
We climbed mountains so high it seemed as if we would scrape the moon. But the Polar Express never slowed down. Faster and faster we ran along, rolling over peaks and through valleys like a car on a roller coaster.
The mountains turned into hills, the hills to snow-covered plains. We crossed a barren desert of ice — the Great Polar Ice Cap. Lights appeared in the distance. They looked like the lights of a strange ocean liner sailing on a frozen sea. “There,” said the conductor, “is the North Pole.”
The North Pole. It was a huge city standing alone at the top of the world, filled with factories where every Christmas toy was made.
The Polar Express is simply magical and a must for the Christmas season. Make it a bedtime story for the kids before the big day, and even if you don’t have children, it’s still a magical tale!
So there’s another day done in our literary advent calendar, and with just two weeks left now until the big day, we hope we’re helping to get you in the mood for the festivities.
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