Next in my 31 Days of Christmas is a more recent Christmas Movie: Elf is the story of a human baby, Buddy, raised by elves in the North Pole who never really quite fit in. One day he overhears two elves talking and finds out he is adopted. One of my favorite lines is from Leon the Snowman who looks suspiciously Sam the Snowman from Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, "At least you have a daddy. I was just rolled up one day and left out in the cold!" His adopted father gives him a ph...

First up in my 31 Days of Christmas* one of my favorite Rankin & Bass cartoons.: The Year Without a Santa Claus Synopsis: Santa sick with a cold and believing no one cares anyway follows his Dr.'s advice and takes a vacation this year. ( Never listen to Doctors! Especially ones looking suspiciously like Ebenezer Scrooge! ) Mrs. Claus determined to show Santa that people do still believe in him sends out two elves, Jingle and Jangle along with a young reindeer, Vixen, to find peopl...