TY - BOOK TI - Merry Christmas, Geronimo! SN - 043955974X PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - Stilton, Geronimo (Fictitious character) KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Mice KW - Animals KW - Christmas stories KW - Mystery and detective stories KW - Humorous stories N1 - Passager: Territory -- History -- Hawk -- Capture -- Trail -- Dream -- House -- Wild thing -- Names -- Bated boy -- Room -- Mews -- Dog -- Name -- Hobby: Lies -- Walls -- Smoke -- For sale -- Town -- Castle on wheels -- Mage -- City -- Secrets -- Players -- Dream-reader -- Different reading -- Resurrection -- True magic -- Merlin: Flight -- Fishing -- Pack -- Creature -- Wild folk -- Bedding -- Quarrels -- Long wait -- Dreamer -- Dream Cage -- Magic -- Freedom -- Hiding place -- Battleground -- Family -- Author's Note; RL3; 008-012 N2 - When Merlin is just eight years old, his parents abandon him, leaving him to starve to death in the woods. He survives. More than that, he thrives: Over the course of the next four strange years, he discovers and tames his terrifying powers; pretends to be a traveling player, passing among peasants and princes; and fatefully befriends a future king. In the three novels of the Young Merlin Trilogy -- Passager, Hobby, and Merlin -- master storyteller Jane Yolen reimagines the origins of the greatest wizard of all time, bringing to life a Merlin at once more human and more magical than any who have appeared before ER -