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Author Matt Haig and illustrator Chris Mould share their top tips on how to write and decorate a brilliant letter to Father Christmas.

Maybe the snow is falling and this is the day that they're going to write the letter to Santa Claus. I was just transported," Jarratt said. The best part was that the letter was discovered while ...

Derek Rogers thought he handled the "conversation" with his daughter about Santa Claus really well, but he quickly realized that wasn't the case.

An 8-year-old girl in Arizona was so distraught after learning the truth about Santa Claus that she wrote her parents an angry letter labeling ... and sweetness in her writing,” the ...

STEUBENVILLE, OH — At Christmas at the Fort, writing letters to Santa is a tradition kids and adults alike have been enjoying for 10 years. "We offer the opportunity to write a letter to Santa.

Reading and writing were important in her family, so Jarratt guesses the letter was written at a young age about a hundred years ago, she assumes around 1924 or '25. It was written by her aunt, who ...

Last Saturday, I was excited with anticipated as I arrived at the Santa’s Station at 11 Uptown Circle in my Mrs. Claus outfit, as our Bloomington Normal Branch of the NAACP celebrated our Black Mr.

Santa Claus receives millions of letters each holiday ... when children would write letters and then burn them, in hopes that their wishes would be conveyed to Santa on a plume of ash and smoke.

Santa Claus once again spread Christmas cheer in parts of the Philippines by replying to letters sent by both the young and the old.

Nick with the second. Presumably letters came to Santa Claus, Ind., for the next few decades but the post office would not gain renown until 1914 when the postmaster general James Martin started ...