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L. Frank Baum's Book of Santa Claus: Classic Christmas Stories from the Author of Oz
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515437376
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
L. Frank Baum's Book of Santa Claus brings together Baum's classic Christmas fantasy about the life, work, and legend of Santa Claus. In The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Baum imagines Claus not simply as a holiday figure, but as a child raised among immortal beings in the Forest of Burzee, gradually discovering human sorrow and dedicating his life to bringing joy to children. In A Kidnapped Santa Claus, the same mythic world darkens into a Christmas Eve adventure, as hostile forces attempt to stop Santa's yearly mission.
Written by the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, these Santa Claus stories show Baum's gift for building American fairy tales out of wonder, moral clarity, comic invention, and strange enchantment. The book belongs naturally beside classic children's Christmas stories, fairy tales, and early twentieth-century fantasy: generous in feeling, vividly imagined, and shaped by the belief that kindness can become legend.
For readers of classic children's literature, Christmas stories, Santa Claus fiction, fairy-tale fantasy, and L. Frank Baum's work beyond Oz, L. Frank Baum's Book of Santa Claus remains a charming seasonal volume: imaginative, humane, and rich in the mythic warmth of a distinctly American holiday fantasy.
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