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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
Author: Amelia Houghton
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-12
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781482036374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is the most loving, gentle story of the Santa Claus legend that has ever been written. A wonderful telling of the tale, good for children who still believe in Santa Claus, their older siblings who have learned their elders are the givers, and parents who are looking for a way to explain the transition and to focus on the real meaning of Christmas giving.
Author: Alden Perkes
Publisher: Lyle Stuart
Published: 2000-06
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780818403811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of Santa and his elves.
Author: Debbie Dadey
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2021-12-07
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13: 1338829157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe hugely popular early chapter book series re-emerges -- now in e-book! The kids in the third grade at Bailey Elementary are so hard to handle that all of their teachers have quit. But their new teacher, Mrs. Jeepers, is different to say the least. She's just moved from the Transylvanian Alps and she seems to have some strange powers that help her deal with these mischief-makers. Her methods may be a little unconventional, but, then again, Mrs. Jeepers may be just what the Bailey School kids need.
Author: Phyllis Siefker
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2006-11-27
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0786429585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch of the modern-day vision of Santa Claus is owed to the Clement Moore poem "The Night Before Christmas." His description of Saint Nicholas personified the "jolly old elf" known to millions of children throughout the world. However, far from being the offshoot of Saint Nicholas of Turkey, Santa Claus is the last of a long line of what scholars call "Wild Men" who were worshipped in ancient European fertility rites and came to America through Pennsylvania's Germans. This pagan creature is described from prehistoric times through his various forms--Robin Hood, The Fool, Harlequin, Satan and Robin Goodfellow--into today's carnival and Christmas scenes. In this thoroughly researched work, the origins of Santa Claus are found to stretch back over 50,000 years, jolting the foundation of Christian myths about the jolly old elf.
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: Ruth Sawyer
Publisher:
Published: 1916
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lonely boy in snowy hill country at Christmas meets a "locked-out fairy" who introduces him to equally lonely neighbors and each tells him a unique story of the Christmas season.
Author: Michael G. Ploog
Publisher:
Published: 1992-04-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780756766825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this full-color volume of cartoons, Michael G. Ploog has adapted the story of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, creator of the beloved Wizard of Oz series. Ploog tells Baum1s story in his words and with his own unique comic illustrations. This book will appeal to young people and adults alike.
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-10-08
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 069817092X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of five beloved Christmas classics A Merry Christmas collects the treasured holiday tales of Louisa May Alcott, from the dearly familiar Yuletide benevolence of Marmee and her “little women” to the timeless “What Love Can Do,” wherein the residents of a boarding house come together to make a lovely Christmas for two poor girls. Wildly popular at the time of their publication—readers deluged Alcott with letters demanding sequels—and drawing on Alcott’s family and experiences in the abolitionist and women’s suffrage movements, these stories have the authentic texture and detail of Christmas in nineteenth-century America, while their emphasis on generosity and charity make them timeless embodiments of the Christmas spirit. Penguin Christmas Classics Give the gift of literature this Christmas. Penguin Christmas Classics honor the power of literature to keep on giving through the ages. The five volumes in the series are not only our most beloved Christmas tales, they also have given us much of what we love about the holiday itself. A Christmas Carol revived in Victorian England such Christmas hallmarks as the Christmas tree, holiday cards, and caroling. The Yuletide yarns of Anthony Trollope popularized throughout the British Empire and around the world the trappings of Christmas in London. The holiday tales of Louisa May Alcott shaped the ideal of an American Christmas. The Night Before Christmas brought forth some of our earliest Christmas traditions as passed down through folk tales. And The Nutcracker inspired the most famous ballet in history, one seen by millions in the twilight of every year. Collect all five Penguin Christmas Classics: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope A Merry Christmas: And Other Christmas Stories by Louisa May Alcott The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Author: Margaret Evans Price
Publisher: Green Tiger Press
Published: 2010-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781595833921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYoung Teddy Malleen flies to the North Pole in his own airplane, where Santa requests that Teddy tell children to put their Christmas greens outside their door after the holiday for his reindeer to eat.
