He was such a jolly little chap, with a smile that crinkled up his round nose, blue eyes brimful of merriment, and a waddle that made all the children laugh, as he staggered under loaves and cookies. The children loved the little fat Santa even more than they did the cake-dough puppies and the gingerbread Brownies. And often, when he was busy, he would send out his little boy, Santa, to give the children their pastries. Claus, being a generous baker, almost always gave them cake-dough puppies, or gingerbread Brownies, when they came. And he made little plum tarts, that a boy could eat up in one gobble, and a girl could eat up in two.Īll the boys and girls who lived in Pudding Lane used to play around Mr. He made great fat loaves of bread, warm and golden and crusty. And he knew so well how to make funny gingerbread Brownies, with black-raisin eyes. He knew so well how to make little cake puppies, with red-currant eyes. Claus was really about the best baker in the world. Claus, was a baker, and he lived in Pudding Lane, between the butcher and the candle-stick-maker. ONCE UPON A TIME, in the kingdom of Old King Cole, there lived a father and a mother, and a fat little boy who was always dressed in a bright red suit. The story follows Santa as he grows up in Pudding Lane, eventually to become the famed gift-giver who flies around the world – and would spawn a line of books about the Lane and it cast of characters released by Addington and Kay throughout the 1920s.Ī perfect gift book to read each year to children of all ages, The Boy Who Lived in Pudding Lane is now back in print in a stunning edition that will be a treasured heirloom With Ladies Home Journal started a career in children’s illustrations that included her famous Alice in Wonderland edition in 1923, among her other works. The original illustrations reproduced for this edition are magnificent, and were originally created by prominent American illustrator Gertrude Kay, whose iconic style
Author Sarah Addington's charming story of the boyhood life of dear Santa Claus became an instant classic, and is lovingly reproduced in a facsimileĮdition for the first time here, including the original size, page format, and layout. Claus" first appeared in theĪmerican magazine, Ladies Home Journal, for Christmas in 1921 and was published as a hardcover the following year. The Boy Who Lived In Pudding Lane - "Being a true account, if only you believe it, of the life and ways of Santa, oldest son of Mr.
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