The Great Santa Search

This follow-up to Jeff Guinn's bestselling holiday favorites The Autobiography of Santa Claus and How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas takes readers on a sleigh ride through the history of Christmas in America that lands smack-dab in 2006 as a new reality TV show threatens to destroy the true spirit of Christmas.. This third installment in Jeff Guinn's bestselling Christmas Chronicles series finds Santa facing perhaps the biggest challenge of his career. As Santa himself relates in this delightful holiday read the trouble began in 1841 when a Philadelphia merchant named J.W. Parkinson hired a neighbor to dress as Kris Kringle in order to lure shoppers into his dry-goods store. Much to Santa's chagrin it's been pretty much downhill since. It seems everybody wants a piece of Christmas and through the years it has gotten worse—to the point that not a Christmas can go by without phony Santas posing on street corners across the country. But when in 2006 it's announced that a new reality TV show called The Great Santa Search will feature a competition to find the real St. Nicholas Santa knows it's time to step in!. With all the rich historical detail and glorious Christmas cheer that made The Autobiography of Santa Claus and How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas treasured family favorites The Great Santa Search is destined to become yet another Christmas classic from Jeff Guinn.