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Originally Posted by bfisher
Just read J.R.R. Tolkien's "Letters from Father Christmas". Amazing book, I wish we had had this when our kids were young.
Every year in the 1920s-30s Tolkien wrote a letter from Father Christmas to his children describing events at the North Pole while preparing for Christmas. The letters generally include the activities of the North Polar Bear, and sometimes elves. He included coloured drawings, and the letters (and envelopes) use a elvish-looking script, so it's best viewed on a tablet rather than eink.
Tolkien also wrote an illustrated book "Mr. Bliss" for his children, but it wasn't published until after he died (apparently it was too costly to print in 1936 because of the colour illustrations). Unfortunately, "Mr. Bliss" doesn't seem to be available as an ebook.
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I don't think I've ever read Mr. Bliss but I do have a copy (in paper) of the Father Christmas letters and I agree Mr. Tolkien had quite the imagination. Of course the postman added that little extra touch of reality to the stories by 'delivering' the letters from Father Christmas I'm sure. Christmas is a magical time when you're little. I wish I'd had yearly letters from him when I was young.
