![]() ![]() More attention and details were added by illustrator Thomas Nast in many pictures of the character he now called Santa Claus beginning in 1863. Nicholas” of 1823 that brought many of our ideas about Santa Claus to the public through continued newspaper printings. Clement Clarke Moore’s poem, “A Visit From St. Washington Irving of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” fame was the first American author to write about St. Martin Gardner’s excellent introduction explains the complex history and development of the character from diverse European origins that were brought to America and gradually developed a new life and new stories here. This one remained unknown to me until I was able to buy this 1976 reprint from Dover Books. ![]() Baum wrote many other fantasy novels for young readers, but I didn’t know about most of them until later when I began to find them at used book sales and stores in my twenties. Granted, Baum’s first Oz book was not as good as the movie, in my opinion then and now, but the second one of the series, “The Marvelous Land of Oz,” was even better, and many later titles were equally fun to read. Baum’s Oz from the 1939 MGM film, but came to love his Oz books when my grade school librarian lent me her own childhood editions of many of them in the early 1960s when I was about 12. Every year around this time I reread something related to the season, and this is it for 2020. ![]()
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