Amber's Comments: Santa Claus has been going about his mission to bring good boys and girls toys for about 17 centuries now. Since his good friend JW Parkinson decided to use a fake Santa Claus for his marketing in 1841, the real Santa has been concerned about the commercialization of Christmas. He wants to make sure that the children do not focus only on getting, but remember that his gifts are really reminders of love and generosity in the world.
In modern times, Santa finds out the Bobbo Butler, head of the FUN-TV network, is planning a reality show for Christmas Eve - "The Great Santa Search". Santa worries that a bad "Santa" will be chosen and ruin children's belief in him. So he sends some of his friends to infiltrate the planning process and he begins training to master all of the events so he can win.
Santa goes through an arduous journey to get picked to be one of the ten finalists on the show - including giving up cookies and becoming a mall Santa! In the end, Santa, some of his "imposters" and most of America learn a lesson about the Christmas spirit.
Santa Claus is the narrator of this story, and he has a strangely formal tone, which sometimes seemed forced. Also, Santa was really out of touch with modern technology, which I found shocking. It seems like Santa would want to be informed of modern developments, but instead he lives in total isolation with his friends and their homemade toys. But what I truly found odd about this story is that Santa claims he does not have elves - that was all the imagination of an illustrator. He actually has "real people" friends who have joined him in his mission and also attained immortality. These include: Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Amelia Earhart and Teddy Roosevelt, among many others.
Despite these few oddities, this was a nice story that served as a reminder of the true spirit of Christmas (check status at GPL).
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