Original title: "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" Literature used: 1) book "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus", publishing house "Bowen-Merrill Company", USA, Indianapolis, 1902 // 2) book " The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus", Vremya Publishing House, Russia, Moscow, 2001, ISBN: 5-94117-013-0 Translator: Svetlana Zavrazhnova Artist: Mary Coles Clark Contents YOUTHChapter 1. BurziChapter 2. Son of the ForestChapter 3. The child is accepted Chapter 4. Klaus Chapter 5. The Forest Master of the World Chapter 6. Klaus recognizes people Chapter 7. Klaus leaves the Forest MATURITY Chapter 1. The Laughing Valley Chapter 2. How Klaus made his first toy Chapter 3. How the Reels colored the toys Chapter 4. How little Mary was scared Chapter 5. How Bassie Blythesam came to Laughing ValleyChapter 6. The Evil OnesChapter 7. The Great Battle of Good and EvilChapter 8. The First Journey with the Forest ReindeerChapter 9. Santa Claus!Chapter 10. Christmas EveChapter 11. How the custom of hanging stockings by the fireplace came aboutChapter 12. The first Christmas treeOLD AGEChapter 1. Robe of ImmortalityChapter 2. When the world grew oldChapter 3. Envoys of Santa Claus Fairy-tale stories about Santa Claus* await readers on the pages of this book. How Santa Claus appeared, how he made his first toy, about the great battle between Good and Evil, about the first journey with forest reindeer, how the custom of hanging stockings by the fireplace appeared, about the first Christmas tree, about Santa Claus's messengers and many more interesting things kids will learn and adults after reading this book. *Santa Claus will meet us later in Baum’s book “Journey to Oz” among the guests of honor invited by Ozma to her birthday. Source: org/forum/viewtopic.php?tu003d4912422 Dear friends! I bring to your attention a collection of fairy tales by the wonderful American children's writer Lyman Frank Baum in Russian. All books are homemade and have never been published in this form. I wanted to convey to you the charm of old books, to present them in an authentic, undistorted and unpainted form. It was precisely these fairy tales with stunning, magnificent drawings that American children read 100 years ago. For my works, I used only original illustrations from Baum's first editions of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. All the drawings have been restored, the inscriptions have been Russified, because my books are intended for Russian-speaking readers. Some of them have special wide margins on which illustrations are placed, as was done in the original Baum books. I would like to note that in addition to the classic books about the Land of Oz, other works of the writer that are less known in our country are also distributed here, such as “The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus”, “Queen Zixie from the Land of X”, “Sea Fairies”, “The Island in heaven" and others. There are currently 16 books being given away, 10 of which are about Oz. Unfortunately, due to family reasons, work on the project has been suspended. Sincerely, pavel_7_8