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Letters from Father Christmas /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.Edition: Rev. edDescription: 111 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0618512659
  • 9780618512652
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 22
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.T5744 Le 2004
Summary: A collection of illustrated letters from Father Christmas recapping the activities of the preceding year at the North Pole. The letters were written and illustrated by the author to his children.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Standard Loan Coeur d'Alene Library Juvenile Fiction Coeur d'Alene Library Book J TOLKIEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 50610021649624
Short Loan (Child Access) Hayden Library Holiday Hayden Library Book TOLKIEN (HOLIDAY) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 50610022475615
Standard Loan Newport Library Juvenile Fiction Newport Library Book J Tolki Let (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 50610015326866
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The first ever paperback edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's complete Father Christmas letters, including a new introduction and rare archive materials.

Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien's children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christmas.

They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how all the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas's house into the dining-room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house!

Sometimes the Polar Bear would scrawl a note, and sometimes Ilbereth the Elf would write in his elegant flowing script, adding yet more life and humor to the stories. No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by the inventiveness and 'authenticity' of Tolkien's Letters from Father Christmas.

"Based on The Father Christmas letters, first published in ... 1976"--T.p. verso.

Includes facsimile reproductions of the actual letters.

A collection of illustrated letters from Father Christmas recapping the activities of the preceding year at the North Pole. The letters were written and illustrated by the author to his children.

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Horn Book Review

Selected from the many letters Tolkien wrote to his children as Father Christmas, these feature the mishaps of the bumbling but lovable North Polar Bear. The book -- a combination of text, illustrations, and envelopes containing letters -- is not as well coordinated or as easy to read as the Ahlbergs' 'The Jolly Postman' (Little) but will please some children. From HORN BOOK 1995, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

A writer of fantasies, Tolkien, a professor of language and literature at Oxford University, was always intrigued by early English and the imaginative use of language. In his greatest story, the trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954--56), Tolkien invented a language with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, even poetry of its own. Though readers have created various possible allegorical interpretations, Tolkien has said: "It is not about anything but itself. (Certainly it has no allegorical intentions, general, particular or topical, moral, religious or political.)" In The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), Tolkien tells the story of the "master of wood, water, and hill," a jolly teller of tales and singer of songs, one of the multitude of characters in his romance, saga, epic, or fairy tales about his country of the Hobbits.

Tolkien was also a formidable medieval scholar, as evidenced by his work, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics (1936) and his edition of Anciene Wisse: English Text of the Anciene Riwle.

Among his works published posthumously, are The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, which was edited by his son, Christopher.

In 2013, his title, The\Hobbit (Movie Tie-In) made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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