Create magnificent framed portraits, lovely afghans, pillows, stockings, and ornaments with this all-new collection of treasured Santa designs. More than 40 unique designs have been meticulously adapted to beautiful full-color cross-stitch charts.

Santa Claus is riding down Santa Claus Lane tonight with toys for all girls and boys.

A collection of lyrics to more than 70 of your favourite Christmas songs. Bring family and friends together with a festive sing-along. This book provides the words to many of the most popular Christmas songs. From Bing Crosby with White Christmas to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and from traditional Carols to popular music there is something to suit all ages and tastes. This is the ideal companion to get everyone in the festive spirit and bring a little Christmas magic to the Holiday Season. Just some of the songs included: All I Want for Christmas is You, Away in A Manger, Deck the Halls, Frosty the Snowman, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Here Comes Santa Claus, It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas, Jingle Bell Rock, Let It Snow, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Sleigh Ride, The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire), The First Noel, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Winter Wonderland, and many more.

A famous American author of children's books presents fifteen Christmas memories, spanning six decades, that detail the path his life has taken.

You CAN play the mountain or lap dulcimer. This book makes it easy The mountain dulcimer is in the midst of a great revival It has found renewed popularity throughout the world. Persons of all nationalities are discovering the sweet music of this grand old instrument.

An entertaining, often surprising look at the life of the world’s most influential fictional character. He is the embodiment of charity and generosity, a creation of mythology, a tool of clever capitalists. The very idea of him is enduring and powerful. Santa Claus was born in early-nineteenth-century America, but his family tree goes back seven hundred years to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children. Intervening generations were shaggy and strange — whip-wielding menaces to naughty boys and girls. Yet as the raucous, outdoor, alcohol-fuelled holiday gave way to a more domestic, sentimental model, a new kind of gift-bringer was called for — a loveable elf, still judgmental but far less threatening. In this engaging social and cultural history, Gerry Bowler examines the place of Santa Claus in history, literature, advertising, and art. He traces his metamorphosis from a beardless youth into a red-suited peddler. He reveals the lesser-known aspects of the gift-bringer’s life — Santa’s involvement with social and political causes of all stripes (he enlisted on the Union side in the American Civil War), his starring role in the movies and as adman for gun-makers and insurance companies. And he demolishes the myths surrounding Santa Claus and Coca-Cola. Santa Claus: A Biography will stand as the classic work on the long-lived and multifarious Mr. Claus.