Letters to Santa Claus : the elves

Resource Information

The work Letters to Santa Claus : the elves represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Letters to Santa Claus : the elves

Title remainder

the elves

Statement of responsibility

[edited by] foreword by Pat Koch, Head Elf ; afterword by Emily Weisner Thompson

Contributor

• Koch, Pat
• Thompson, Emily Weisner

Subject

• Santa Claus, (Fictitious character)
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
• Children
• Children -- Correspondence
• Children's writings
• Children's writings
• Electronic book
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
• Personal correspondence
• Records and correspondence
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious)
• Santa Claus
• Santa Claus
• Santa Claus, (Fictitious character)

Genre

• Correspondence
• Electronic book
• Personal correspondence
• Records and correspondence

Language

eng

Summary

For years, children and adults have stuffed their candid dreams, wishes, and promises into envelopes addressed to Santa Claus. Whether the envelopes come with stamps or without, are addressed to "The Big Red Guy at Jingle Bells Lane" or simply "To Santa," for over 100 years, millions of these letters have poured into Santa Claus, Indiana. Arriving from all corners of the globe, the letters ask for toys, family reunions, snow, and help for the needy--sometimes the needy being the writers themselves. They are candid, heartfelt, and often blunt. Many children wonder how Santa gets into their chimneyless homes. One child reminds Santa that she has not hit her brothers over 1,350 times that year, and another respectfully requests two million dollars in "cold cash." One child hopes to make his life better with a time machine, an adult woman asks for a man, and one miscreant actually threatens Santa's reindeer! Containing more than 250 actual letters and envelopes from the naughty and nice reaching back to the 1930s, this moving book will touch readers' hearts and bring back memories of a time in our lives when the man with a white beard and a red suit held out the hope that our wishes might come true

Member of

• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

977.2/31

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

F534.S27

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography