title: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (Macmillan Collector's Library)
author: L. Frank Baum
description: Lyman Frank Baum was born in 1856 in Chittenango in the state of New York. Educated mostly at home due to ill health, he was encouraged by his wealthy father to pursue his early interests in journalism and playwriting. He started his first magazine aged 15, had his own theatre at 24 and worked for many newspapers and periodicals before turning to children's fiction. <i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</i>, published in 1900, was his third bestselling book in as many years, and launched the hugely successful series of Oz titles. Baum continued writing for the rest of his life and died in 1919 with over one hundred books to his name.
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  #### The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
  
  
  YOUTH
  
  1\. Burzee
  
  2\. The Child of the Forest
  
  3\. The Adoption
  
  4\. Claus
  
  5\. The Master Woodsman
  
  6\. Claus Discovers Humanity
  
  7\. Claus Leaves the Forest
  
  MANHOOD
  
  1\. The Laughing Valley
  
  2\. How Claus Made the First Toy
  
  3\. How the Ryls Colored the Toys
  
  4\. How Little Mayrie Became Frightened
  
  5\. How Bessie Blithesome Came to the Laughing Valley
  
  6\. The Wickedness of the Awgwas
  
  7\. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil
  
  8\. The First Journey with the Reindeer
  
  9\. "Santa Claus!"
  
  10\. Christmas Eve
  
  11\. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys
  
  12\. The First Christmas Tree
  
  OLD AGE
  
  1\. The Mantle of Immortality
  
  2\. When the World Grew Old
  
  3\. The Deputies of Santa Claus
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
  
  
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  ### 1\. Burzee
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Have you heard of the great Forest of 