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Letters to Santa Claus : the elves
- Title
- Letters to Santa Claus : the elves / [edited by Mandy Hussey] ; foreword by Pat Koch, Head Elf ; afterword by Emily Weisner Thompson.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 16-760 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 203 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Records and correspondence.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFF 16-760
- ISBN
- 9780253017932
- 0253017939
- 9780253017949 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015010628
- OCLC
- 914156912
- Title
- Letters to Santa Claus : the elves / [edited by Mandy Hussey] ; foreword by Pat Koch, Head Elf ; afterword by Emily Weisner Thompson.
- Publisher
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Koch, Pat.Thompson, Emily Weisner.Hussey, Mandy, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 16-760