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Author: Jock Elliott
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Published: 2002-10
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the origins of modern Christmas traditions, which evolved over a twenty-five year period, beginning in 1823 with the publication of Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas," to 1848.
Author: Carlo DeVito
Publisher: Cider Mill Press
Published: 2017-10-31
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1604337354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe evidence of the Christmas debate is presented for you to decide: was Clement C. Moore the actual author of The Night Before Christmas? You know the poem, but do you know its controversy? Inventing Santa Claus presents all the details of the heated argument surrounding one of the most celebrated Yuletide poems of all time. Learn both sides of the story and all the evidence supporting either Clement C. Moore or Henry Livingston Jr. or other potential authors! Input from the experts, as well as the rulings of Troy, New York's own mock trial, are presented in full for your own deductions. Who really wrote "The Night Before Christmas"?
Author: Clement Clarke Moore
Publisher: Boston : Atlantic monthly Press
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA poem about the visit that Santa Claus pays to the children of the world during the night before every Christmas.
Author: Alex Palmer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1493018906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe true story of John Duval Gluck, Jr., who in 1913 founded the Santa Claus Association, which had the sole authority to answer Santa's mail in New York City. He ran the organization for 15 years, gaining fame for making the myth of Santa a reality to poor children by arranging for donors to deliver the toys they requested, until a crusading charity commissioner exposed Gluck as a fraud. The story is wide in scope, interweaving a phony Boy Scout group, kidnapping, stolen artwork, and appearances by the era's biggest stars and New York City’s most famous landmarks. The book is both a personal story and a far-reaching historical one, tracing the history of Christmas celebration in America and the invention of Santa Claus.
Author: Bernd Brunner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13: 0300186525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the roots of the Christmas tree tradition, tracing customs from the Middle Ages to the present day to reveal how it first became part of mainstream American culture and has since become popular worldwide.
Author: Lisa Wheeler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 0547576757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSanta Claus is missing, and a host of arctic animals searches for him in the snow.
Author: Gerry Bowler
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2011-07-27
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1551996081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn entertaining, often surprising look at the life of the world’s most influential fictional character. He is the embodiment of charity and generosity, a creation of mythology, a tool of clever capitalists. The very idea of him is enduring and powerful. Santa Claus was born in early-nineteenth-century America, but his family tree goes back seven hundred years to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children. Intervening generations were shaggy and strange — whip-wielding menaces to naughty boys and girls. Yet as the raucous, outdoor, alcohol-fuelled holiday gave way to a more domestic, sentimental model, a new kind of gift-bringer was called for — a loveable elf, still judgmental but far less threatening. In this engaging social and cultural history, Gerry Bowler examines the place of Santa Claus in history, literature, advertising, and art. He traces his metamorphosis from a beardless youth into a red-suited peddler. He reveals the lesser-known aspects of the gift-bringer’s life — Santa’s involvement with social and political causes of all stripes (he enlisted on the Union side in the American Civil War), his starring role in the movies and as adman for gun-makers and insurance companies. And he demolishes the myths surrounding Santa Claus and Coca-Cola. Santa Claus: A Biography will stand as the classic work on the long-lived and multifarious Mr. Claus.
Author: Russell Ince
Publisher: Russell Ince
Published: 2018-11-21
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1545743010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter centuries of closely guarding ancient secrets, Santa Claus has decided that the time has come to share the magical mysteries behind Christmas. All of the miraculous happenings that contribute towards making Christmas the most remarkable time of the year are finally to be revealed to the world.
Author: Grant Morrison
Publisher: Boom
Published: 2016-11-09
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1613985746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in a dark fantastic past of myth and magic, Klaus tells the story of how Santa Claus really came to be. Where did he begin? What was he like when he was young? And what happens when he faces his greatest challenge? Drawing on Santa Claus' wilder roots in Viking lore and Siberian shamanism, taking in the creepier side of Christmas, and characters like the sinister Krampus, Klaus is Santa Claus: Year One.
Author: L Frank Baum
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Published: 2020-02-27
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1902 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark
