The Great Santa Search

by Guinn, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9781585425136
• ISBN10: 1585425133
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-19
• Publisher: Tarcher

Summary

This follow-up to Jeff Guinn's bestselling holiday favorites The Autobiography of Santa Clausand How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmastakes readers on a sleigh ride through the history of Christmas in America that lands smack-dab in 2006, as a new reality TV show threatens to destroy the true spirit of Christmas. This third installment in Jeff Guinn's bestselling Christmas Chronicles series finds Santa facing perhaps the biggest challenge of his career. As Santa himself relates in this delightful holiday read, the trouble began in 1841, when a Philadelphia merchant named J. W. Parkinson hired a neighbor to dress as Kris Kringle in order to lure shoppers into his dry-goods store. Much to Santa's chagrin, it's been pretty much downhill since. It seems everybody wants a piece of Christmas, and through the years it has gotten worse- to the point that not a Christmas can go by without phony Santas posing on street corners across the country. But when, in 2006, it's announced that a new reality TV show called The Great Santa Search will feature a competition to find the "real" St. Nicholas, Santa knows it's time to step in! With all the rich historical detail and glorious Christmas cheer that made The Autobiography of Santa Clausand How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmastreasured family favorites, The Great Santa Searchis destined to become yet another Christmas classic from Jeff Guinn.

Author Biography

Jeff Guinn is a books editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The author of seven books, including the Christmas classics The Autobiography of Santa Claus and How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas, as well as the Texas Book Award-winning Our Land Before We Die: The Proud Story of the Seminole Negro, he lives in Fort Worth