Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (book)

The story tells of Emmet Otter and his Ma, a widow who scrapes by on the small amount of money she gets from doing laundry and that Emmet gets from doing odd jobs around their home in the town of Frogtown Hollow despite both of them often being cheated.

However, in a twist on The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, they must sacrifice each other's livelihood for the talent contest.

In 2008, the Jim Henson Company partnered with "iTheatrics" to develop a musical stage adaptation of the 1977 special.

The musical featured a mix of stage actors, puppet characters and songs.

[1] It premiered in a limited-run engagement on December 7, 2008 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, and closed on January 4, 2009.