Vera Nyce

Created in the 1920s but not published until the 1970s, this is an odd Christmas story. A tramp, a rat, takes shelter at the home of a family of mice on Christmas Eve when he is scared by a cranky Santa Claus mouse in the woods. Sure enough, Santa shows up to deliver presents a bit later and becomes even grumpier when he accidentally falls into a pot of soup warming in the fireplace.

Kids may enjoy the slapstick, but I found it more weird than funny.