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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is written by L. Frank Baum and is illustrated by Mary Cowels Clark. This is a children's book that was published in 1902. As the name implies, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is the story of the life and different adventures of none other than Santa Claus himself. The book tells us that Santa Claus as a baby was found in the forest of Burzee by Ak, Master Woodsman of the World. He placed the baby under the care of the lioness, Shiegra. The Wood Nymph, Necile breaks the law of the forest and takes the baby because she desires to raise the baby on her own like mortals. Necile calls him Claus, meaning “little ones” in the old Burzee language. But Queen Zurline gives him the more formal name “Neclaus” which means “Necile's Little One”.
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Santa Claus is educated by the immortals of the forests, including:
- The Fairies who watch over humans
- The Wood Nymphs who watch over trees
- The Gnomes who watch over rocks
- The Knooks, who watch over animals
- Ryls who watch over flowers
- Sleep Fays who bring sleep to the world
- Light Elves
- Sound Imps
- Wind Demons
- Water Spirits.
The author imagines the minute details during this period of Santa's life and elaborates it in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. When Santa reached his adulthood, Ak decides that he should know the way of living of the mortals. So he shows Santa the war, brutality, poverty, child neglect and abuse and Santa was frustrated of his very mortal's existence. Ak boosts him not to shy the mortals as he also is one of them. Ak also encorages him to live among them as he cannot live in Burzee as an adult. Santa settles in the nearby Laughing valley of Hohaho. At the end of the book Santa Claus becomes an immortal and takes on four special deputies. Baum's follow up “A Kidnapped Santa Claus” further develops on this.
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