The Elf-Approved Gift Guide

Bernard: “Every piece passes the drop test from the top of the workshop stairs. I checked. Twice.”

Twinkle: “I approve of anything that hauls cargo. It doubles as a very small sleigh.”

Nutmeg: “My rule: a book should survive at least one bath-time reading.”

Pepper: “Noise is just music that hasn't found its choir yet.”

Bernard: “I built a scale model of the whole workshop out of these. It took four hundred tiles and one very long weekend.”

Twinkle: “I use one to plan the loading-bay layout every year. Don't tell Santa.”

Holly: “I wrap more of these than anything else. The bow always goes on the handlebars.”

Pepper: “Every good holiday play needs a costume department.”

Jingle: “My apprentice program starts early. Very early.”

Twinkle: “For finding the North Star — and, on a very clear Christmas Eve, possibly something moving fast across the sky.”

Bernard: “My workshop motto: every great toy started as an experiment that went slightly wrong.”

Twinkle: “The loading bay runs on these. The range is excellent; our radio etiquette is not.”

Jingle: “Comes with everything except my gingerbread recipe. That stays classified.”

Nutmeg: “I've read every letter asking for 'just one more chapter.'”

Bernard: “My newest apprentices all started with one of these.”

Holly: “I keep a wall of workshop snapshots. Everyone's blinking in at least half of them.”

Pepper: “Every great set design starts in a sketchbook. Beacon fills one a month.”

Nutmeg: “The Mail Office's game night is extremely competitive. I'm undefeated.”

Holly: “Standard issue at the North Pole. Also excellent for snowball season.”

Nutmeg: “I keep a stack by the mail sorter for slow afternoons.”

Twinkle: “For reading under the covers on Christmas Eve. Not that anyone would.”

Jingle: “My secret: always more marshmallows than seems reasonable.”