? Stick Man by Julia Donaldson, illustrations by Axel Scheffler, NY, Arthur A. Levine, $19.99 DONALDSON'S venture into the Christmas market comes after her rousing success with The Gruffalo, a ...

The Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler is encouraging children to send postcards and letters to their grandparents, parents and friends to stop the trend "dying out". Scheffler, who describes himself ...