The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Lyman Frank Baum

Bowen-Merrill Company, 1902 - Children's stories - 206 pages

This 1902 novel details the infancy, youth, adulthood and motivation of Santa Claus. Slightly different from any adaptation heard at the time it was written, the book describes Santa as being educated by immortal fairies and wood nymphs in the forest.

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User Review  - flamingrosedrakon - LibraryThing

This book has been made into a cartoon movie that I came upon one Christmas season but it was only bits and pieces that I saw. I was caught by the movie but unfortunately I couldn't get the channel to ...

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Five stars for one of the freakiest stories ever written. And this by the same person who wrote the Wizard of Oz. Santa suckled on the teats of a lion... I think Baum discovered LSD way before Timothy Leary. A must read to the companion must see Rankin and Bass Christmas special of the same name. 

Contents

• IV: 6
• V: 11
• VI: 11
• VII: 11
• VIII: 12
• IX: 19
• X: 21
• XI: 35
• XIII: 35
• XV: 31
• XVI: 47
• XVII: 52
• XVIII: 53
• XIX: 59
• XXI: 67
• XXII: 76
• XXIII: 80

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
• Author: Lyman Frank Baum
• Illustrated by: Mary Cowles Clark
• Publisher: Bowen-Merrill Company, 1902
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Apr 22, 2005
• Length: 206 pages