and Mrs. Claus and The Night Before Christmas by Alice and Lillian Desow Holland, 1946 How Mrs. Santa Claus Saved Christmas by Phyllis McGinley, 1963 Mrs. Santa Claus by Penny Ives, 1993 A Bit of Applause for Mrs. Claus by Jeannie Schick-Jacobowitz, 2003 The Story of Mrs. Santa Claus by Bethanie Tucker and Crystal McLaughlin, 2007 Mrs. Claus Takes A Vacation by Linas Alsenas, 2008 What Does Mrs. Claus Do? by Kate Wharton and Christian Slade, 2008 Annalina: The Untold Story of Mrs. Claus by Adam Greenwood, 2011, tells the tale of the young woman who will one day become Mrs Claus. It has been adapted into a storybook for young children with coloring pictures and serves as the pilot for a series of novellas about various different characters from the story. Mrs. Claus Says by Nancy Claus, 2005–present, an ongoing series of children's books about life in the North pole, narrated by Mrs. Claus. Films The first motion picture to depict Mrs. Claus was 1964's Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, where she was played by Doris Rich. The 1970 stop-action animation Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town featured the red-haired Miss Jessica, a lovely schoolteacher who falls in love with and marries Kris Kringle, eventually becoming the classic Mrs. Claus. The 1974 stop-action sequel The Year Without a Santa Claus starred Shirley Booth voicing the classic Mrs. Claus. This was remade in 2006 as a live-action film with Delta Burke playing Mrs. Claus. In the 1984 TriStar Pictures film, The Night They Saved Christmas, Mrs. Claus, as played by June Lockhart to Art Carney's Santa, looked after the children when they visited the North Pole. Mrs. Claus (played by Judy Cornwell) is also a character in 1985's Santa Claus: The Movie, where she played a vital role in the film's story. Her first name is Anya. It was her idea to give presents only to good children. In the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mrs. Claus has a cameo appearance. She is seen in the kitchen of her and Santa Claus's home, preparing a lunch box and a vacuum flask for her husband to take to work. The 2002 film The Santa Clause 2 centers on Tim Allen's character being forced to marry in order to continue his role as Santa. The "Mrs. Clause" confirms why every Santa has had a Mrs. Claus, because it is part of