“Twas The Night Before Christmas” describes the racket reindeer make when landing on a housetop—“I heard on the roof the prancing and pawing of each little hoof”—but Jessica Anderson wonders if the ...

My children are far more knowledgeable about the habits of reindeer than I was at their age, thanks to the popularity of the animated fairy tale Frozen franchise, which not only featured a reindeer as ...