Description
What could be better than a biography of Santa Claus written by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz! Did you ever wonder how Santa Claus came to be? Where the first Christmas tree came from? How Santa carved the very first toy? Every answer is here!
This beautiful new paperback edition of the timeless Christmas classic includes Baum’s charming sequel story “A Kidnapped Santa Claus,” presenting Santa’s entire merry history.
Award-winning illustrator Eric Shanower brings Santa’s story to life in twelve lovely full-color full page paintings in this delightful new edition. Specially redesigned for this new Hungry Tiger Press edition, the handsome volume features light green paper, colorful chapter headings, and several brand-new illustrations – 171 pages!
If you are ordering this as a gift, please note what shipping method you choose. We will endeavor to ship within 24 hours, of course, but Media Mail will get slower as the holidays approach. You may select Media Mail, USPS Advantage, or USPS Priority Mail at check out.
Illustrator Eric Shanower will sign each copy ordered through Hungry Tiger Press. If you would like a personalized inscription, please specify it in the Notes section during Checkout.
REVIEWS
“The text and the pictures tell what millions want to know, and particularly those who put their trust in the good saint whose season is soon to rule. The life of Santa Claus is a most interesting one and Mr. Baum seems to have enjoyed advantages that no former biographer has been able to reach. The book is a large one for a Christmas stocking, but it ought to find its way into thousands of them.”
–The Davenport Democrat
“Here is a book for which all the little ones have been waiting for generations and generations. It tells who Santa Claus really was, how he became the children’s saint and benefactor, where his workshop was and is, and how he became possessed of his marvelous sleigh and reindeer team. . . . How Mr. Baum learned the facts is his own secret. . . . Anyway, he knows all about it, and the fortunate children who get his book in the package brought them this year by good old Santa will know as much as he does when they get to the last page.”
–Cleveland Plain Dealer
“A book which will surely come to the front as a holiday favorite. . . . The book is entertaining throughout in its wealth of incident and its tone of hearty good cheer.”
–Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
“A fantastic volume that will be sure to attract the juvenile eye at this season of the year. Mr. Baum takes his young friends into regions they have never trod before, and he introduces them to curious friends whose acquaintance they will be very glad to make. They will, moreover, learn many things about Santa Claus that they have always longed to know, and Mr. Baum is to be congratulated upon his researches into the archives of Christmas antiquity.”
–Boston Evening Transcript
