The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
New York: Greenwich House / Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983. Clark, Mary Cowles. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2353240
ISBN: 0517420627
Reissue. Lacks jacket. Minor loss of gilt from titles, a few light smudges on rear board.
xi, [3], 206, [2] pp. 1983 reissue of 1902 original. Illustrations by Mary Cowles Clark. An origin story of Santa Claus, by the author of the Oz series. "Originally published in 1902, this fantasy imagines that Santa Claus was once a human foundling adopted by woodland fairies, who grows up surrounded by elves, Knooks, Ryls, and other "immortals" of the natural world. Santa Claus, as a baby, is found in the Forest of Burzee by Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World (a supreme immortal), and placed in the care of the lioness Shiegra; but thereupon adopted by the Wood Nymph, Necile. Upon reaching young adulthood, Claus is introduced by Ak to human society, wherein he sees poverty and difficulties. Because he cannot reside in Burzee as an adult, he settles in the nearby Laughing Valley of Hohaho, where the immortals regularly assist him, and Necile gives him a little cat named Blinky. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a classic children's book, written by L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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