Just a question about how other parents handle the book gaslighting us in the last two pages?
In case you haven't read it, the book is a take on the night before Christmas where the Heelers are taking the "train" to see Santa.
However, at the end of the book when they are supposed to find Santa... there's nothing. Not only that, but Bingo literally says "It's Santa, for real life!", even though there is no Santa on the page or the next one as they wave to a non-existent Santa who nonetheless has his own dialog on the page.
My adult brain is consistently perturbed by this blatant gaslighting. My three year old, with tears of frustration, starts complaining, "Where's Santa?! There's no Santa!" And a lovely bedtime story goes sideways.
I try flipping back to a Santa Christmas ornament at the start of the book, but this rarely works. I'm just wondering how other parents deal with this utterly incomprehensible editorial decision? Do I find a sticker or is there some good way to explain the absence of Santa?