Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by Leisa
Filed under: Christmas Mouse, Literary Traditions
Thanks to the Christmas Mouse we now have a literary twist on the traditional letters to Santa. Once again the mouse delivered. This time it was the book titled A Letter to Santa by Gaby Goldsack (ISBN 0-7607-7075-1).
The story is about a boy who writes his letter to Santa on Christmas Eve. He places his letter in the chimney, and then falls asleep. He then dreams of traveling to Santa’s Grotto where he sees his letter at the foot of St. Nick and sees the elves going about their creation process.
So we read the book and then six year old McKayla then dictated her letter to me. For some reason the two older kids think that letter writing is no longer necessary. She then wrote her letter on the piece of stationary that was included in the front cover of the book and we mailed it off to the North Pole. We don’t have a fireplace or we would have waited until Christmas Eve just like in the story.
Do you have a letter writing tradition? If so please share.
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Since my children now have families of their own I have changed the tradition of letter writing to Santa. For those that “still believe” I write them a letter from Santa. I do this for family and friends. I obtain the necessary info from mom i.e what they want for Christmas, memorable events during the year and improvements that need to be made. It is written on Santa stationary complete with Santa return address and stamp. It is as much fun for me as it is for the little ones.