Quite a few well-known illustrators in today's post. Don Freeman, best known for Corduroy, Peter Spier, who created more than 30 children's books, Feodor Rojankovsky, a Russian illustrator who often depicted beautiful drawings of animals, Richard Scarry, (well, who doesn't know Richard Scarry??) and Leonard Weisgard, who illustrated a beautiful version of The Night Before Christmas, and many other adorable books.
This adorable Little Golden Book is illustrated by Richard Scarry. I was wondering - do your kids question the whole Santa/Rudolph/Elf on the Shelf stuff, or do they accept it unquestioningly? I think that my 6 year old accepts all the Santa and Rudolph stuff, it's not that she's doubting it, but she starting to want to understand more of how it all works. Questions like 'Why is Santa's name Kris Kringle? And St. Nick? Does he live in a castle? Is that guy the real Santa, or just a helper Santa? How does he get in our house if we don't have a chimney? ' and so on! As for the Elf on the Shelf- I am not sure if she suspects anything or not - every morning I play along with helping her to find him and am 'surprised' when she reads me his note and the joke that he wrote down for her for the day. 
Some more Richard Scarry books here - I had never heard of Tinker and Tanker until recently, how about you? There are a few books about them. I would love to have a 'Busytown' themed birthday party for one of my girls one day. Forgot to mention in the last Richard Scarry post that included in our Scarry swag is the Busytown Eye Found It board game and also the Busy, Busy Airport game. So cute. Linking to Cozy Book Hop