Mildred Madeleine Corell Luckhardt
Auteur de The Story of Saint Nicholas
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Œuvres de Mildred Madeleine Corell Luckhardt
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- Œuvres
- 14
- Membres
- 207
- Popularité
- #106,920
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 15
The Story of Saint Nicholas is the second fictionalized story about a historical saint that I have read from author Mildred Correll Luckhardt and illustrator Gordon Laite, following upon their Good King Wenceslas, which was published four years after this, and which I read last holiday season (2018). On the whole, I don't think this one was quite as engaging, but I did enjoy it, and I appreciated learning a little bit more about the real Saint Nicholas. There is a brief, ten-page second section here, explaining how the legend of Santa Claus came to be, combining elements of Saint Nicholas and of northern European customs about a gift-giver from the north. I appreciated Luckhardt's statement that "Santa Claus is not really St. Nicholas, but a gay Christmas symbol of the way St. Nicholas gave," as I think this allows people who want to educate their children about the real saint, but also honor the Santa tradition, to reconcile the two. Recommended to anyone looking for children's books about the real St. Nicholas, and about how St. Nicholas transformed into Santa Claus.… (plus d'informations)