Twelve days of Letters to Santa Day Four - Dear Santa: Please don't come this year

 Dear Father Christmas - I would like a Cindy Doll. Love Margot

It is day four of my 12 Christmas Letter book posts. This one is very different.

"This year we have five million video games and ten million computers."

Santa finds all this technology confusing. He is feeling old and tired.

Then Santa reads the final letter:

Dear Santa,

Please don't come this year. 

You always bring us fine presents. Thank you.

But, Santa, we have almost everything we want. 

Lots of children don't get presents.

Some don't have enough to eat or anywhere to live.

Some don't have anyone to look after them, even when they are sick.

So, we don't want presents for ourselves this year.

We want you to help other children, instead. 

And old people and animals in need.

We love you, Santa.

George and the Gang.

Santa flies across the world delivering the gift of food, the gift of health, the gift of sight, the gift of water, the gift of technology, the gift of workers who dig wells, the gift of peace - he takes the guns and puts them on a bonfire, the gift of learning, and to the animals - the gift of survival.

This is a very old book from 1993 but the subtitle intrigued me - Dear Santa: Please don't come this year. I was also curious when I saw no author name on this book - only an illustrator - Patricia D Ludlow. This book would not be one of my own Christmas favourites but I enjoyed the different perspective of giving to others. With older students you could link this book with UN Rights of the Child.