The novel's title character and protagonist is found as an abandoned baby on the edge of the enchanted Forest of Burzee. He is adopted by the wood-nymph Necile, who gives him the name Claus, and grows up surrounded by the magical immortals in the forest. When he reaches manhood, Claus decides to leave the forest and live among his own kind, although the immortals continue to help and protect him after he moves to the human world. The novel goes on to explain how Claus begins making toys which bring great joy to children, how he begins delivering the toys on a sleigh pulled by reindeer, why he enters houses via the chimney, how he gains the name Santa Claus and why he can only deliver the toys on Christmas Eve. The novel also explains the origins of Christmas stockings and Christmas trees a
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| - The novel's title character and protagonist is found as an abandoned baby on the edge of the enchanted Forest of Burzee. He is adopted by the wood-nymph Necile, who gives him the name Claus, and grows up surrounded by the magical immortals in the forest. When he reaches manhood, Claus decides to leave the forest and live among his own kind, although the immortals continue to help and protect him after he moves to the human world. The novel goes on to explain how Claus begins making toys which bring great joy to children, how he begins delivering the toys on a sleigh pulled by reindeer, why he enters houses via the chimney, how he gains the name Santa Claus and why he can only deliver the toys on Christmas Eve. The novel also explains the origins of Christmas stockings and Christmas trees a
- L. Frank Baum's story of the origins of Santa Claus, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus received two animated adaptations: A Rankin-Bass Christmas special that would be their last stop-motion Christmas project and a 2D animated film released in the year 2000 featuring Robby Benson and Jim Cummings playing the title character at different ages.
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| - The novel's title character and protagonist is found as an abandoned baby on the edge of the enchanted Forest of Burzee. He is adopted by the wood-nymph Necile, who gives him the name Claus, and grows up surrounded by the magical immortals in the forest. When he reaches manhood, Claus decides to leave the forest and live among his own kind, although the immortals continue to help and protect him after he moves to the human world. The novel goes on to explain how Claus begins making toys which bring great joy to children, how he begins delivering the toys on a sleigh pulled by reindeer, why he enters houses via the chimney, how he gains the name Santa Claus and why he can only deliver the toys on Christmas Eve. The novel also explains the origins of Christmas stockings and Christmas trees and tells how Santa Claus gained immortality. The events of Baum's novel bear very little resemblance to accounts of the life and legends of Nicholas of Myra, a bishop said to have lived in what is now Demre, Turkey in the 3rd century CE, on whom the figure of Santa Claus is based. Baum wrote a sequel to The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus in the form of the short story "A Kidnapped Santa Claus", which was first published in 1904. There have been two animated adaptations of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. A stop-motion animation version, produced by Rankin-Bass, first aired in the United States on CBS on December 17, 1985. A second version, distributed by Universal, was released direct-to-video on October 31, 2000.
- L. Frank Baum's story of the origins of Santa Claus, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus received two animated adaptations: A Rankin-Bass Christmas special that would be their last stop-motion Christmas project and a 2D animated film released in the year 2000 featuring Robby Benson and Jim Cummings playing the title character at different ages. The Rankin Bass version utilizes the ending of the book as a framing device, where Ak, the Master Woodsman of the world, argues a case for Santa Claus to be granted immortality to a council of his peers. Both versions tell of how Santa Claus was an orphaned baby found by the immortals of the magical Forest of Burzee, being shown the unfortunate state of other human children by Ak and finding his calling of making toys. However, monsters called the Awgwas oppose Claus's efforts to bring joy to the children that they torment, leading to Ak and the immortals to intervene.
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