The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
by L. Frank Baum
The author of The Wizard of Oz invents an entire life for Santa Claus: a foundling raised by immortals in an enchanted forest, who makes his first toy for one lonely child and spends the rest of his days answering the consequences.
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Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it; of their rough coating of bark and queer, gnarled limbs; of the bushy foliage that…L. Frank Baum, The Life and Adventures of Santa ClausStart reading The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus free →
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Where Santa came from, told properly, by the man who made Oz. Twenty-one short chapters in plain English.
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