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LETTERS TO SANTA
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From the Deseret News, Dear Santa is a wonderful collection of letters written by kids in the late 18oos and early 1900s. |
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Valentine Davies’s Miracle on 34th Street (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), originally written in 1947, features disillusioned Doris Walker, her six-year-old daughter Susan, Fred, the handsome young attorney who lives next door, a feud between Macy’s and Gimbel’s, and a wonderful old man who just might be Santa Claus. Proof of the power of letters to Santa and a lovely read for ages 8 and up. |
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My pick of the Miracle on 34th Street movies is the 1947 original, with Maureen O’Hara, Edmund Gwenn, and a very young Natalie Wood. Rated G. (Forget the 1994 remake. It skips the Santa Claus letters.) |