LETTERS FROM FATHER CHRISTMAS
By J R R Tolkien
Harper Collins - October 2001
ISBN 0261103857 - Hardback
Juvenile / Teenage - Fantasy

Reviewed by Rachel A Hyde, MyShelf.com
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Between the years 1920 and 1943 Tolkien's children received some very special mail every Christmas - letters from Santa himself! Beautifully illustrated and delivered in various ways they told of all kinds of things that happened at the North Pole, and the folk who lived there with Santa. There is the accident-prone North Polar Bear and his two cousins who cause havoc, the wicked goblins and of course the elves and gnomes, not to mention snowfolk and cave bears. The letters came of course from their father Tolkien, and here can be seen some of his wonderful imagination taking shape. Read how the North Pole came to be snapped in half, why Santa had to move house, what a polar bear's writing looks like and how Santa had to defend his home from goblins.

No self-respecting coffee table ought to be without this book at Christmas time - one to keep and treasure.

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