Elf Pets: Santa's Reindeer Rescue

Those familiar with Elf on the Shelf toys will know the original story -- parents purchase toys advertised as "magical" elves that monitor children's behavior and report back to the North Pole every night. In ELF PETS: SANTA'S REINDEER RESCUE, those elves enlist human kids to take on mini-reindeer as pets to help carry Santa's sleigh. The animated short features a few songs and will provide a nice tie-in to kids who already have the toys this movie advertises. The movie is written and directed by Chanda Bell. She and her twin sister Christa Pitts and their mom, Carol Aebersold, wrote and self-published The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition, the original children's book that helped launch The Elf on the Shelf toy company in 2004.