A Christmas book for children, families,
and anyone who has ever wondered how Santa Claus came to be. This book will
permit you and your family to enjoy Santa Claus and the other secular customs
of Christmas within the Christian celebration of Jesus’s birth. For little
children, Santa Claus becomes a real person delivering presents to them from
Jesus. Each Christmas season, reading a chapter a night will become a holiday
tradition for the entire family.
The tale begins with Shai and Adi,
the childless owners of an inn in Bethlehem. When Shai rents out their bedroom,
they must sleep in the stable. During the night, Joseph and Mary arrive and Adi
helps Mary through a difficult labor. They bond, and when an angel appears
telling Joseph to flee to Egypt with Mary and Jesus, Shai and Adi go with them
and become Jesus’s uncle and aunt.
The book tells of Jesus growing up
with his friends Mary Magdalene and John, his ministry, and his death and
resurrection. These vignettes teach the lessons of life and the Bible through
Jesus’s experiences.
The book concludes with Shai and Adi following the Lord’s Star to the North Pole, where angels have built a palace. Jesus wants Shai and Adi to raise the baby angels there until they reach adulthood. The baby angels, or elves as the grown angels derogatively refer to them, are a mischievous lot. Shai becomes known as Santa Claus when a baby angel mispronounces “Shai, Uncle of Jesus,” claus being the angelic word for uncle.
Jesus also wants to give a present
to each boy and girl on his birthday, Christmas Day, a tradition he began
during his life when he gave presents to his family. As part of their training,
once a baby angel sprouts wings he or she is assigned to watch children and
make toys for them. On Christmas Eve, Santa flies the sleigh to heaven to present
the new adult angels to God, and then flies around the world delivering Jesus’s
presents to the children of the world.
The book is a story within a story, told by a visiting uncle to a little girl and her nephew. Each night before bedtime beginning on December 6th, St. Nicholas’s Day, and continuing through Christmas Eve, the uncle tells part of the story. Instead of numbers, the chapters are titled by day. The book can be read as a normal book or a chapter each day, and it can be read to oneself or out loud to children. When read out loud, the chapter lengths vary between 10 and 15 minutes.
The book is a story within a story, told by a visiting uncle to a little girl and her nephew. Each night before bedtime beginning on December 6th, St. Nicholas’s Day, and continuing through Christmas Eve, the uncle tells part of the story. Instead of numbers, the chapters are titled by day. The book can be read as a normal book or a chapter each day, and it can be read to oneself or out loud to children. When read out loud, the chapter lengths vary between 10 and 15 minutes.
About the Author:
Scott
Roloff is the author of the Christmas book The Innkeeper of Bethlehem-The Story
of Santa Claus, the novel Dreams at Dusk and Short Stories for the Hopeful and
the Weary. He is a lawyer and a CPA, having received his accounting degree from
the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, his MBA from the University of Texas at
Arlington, and his law degree from Southern Methodist University. Scott lives in
Texas with his wife, Lynne, and his daughter, Kalie.
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