The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1902 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark.

In Leaving Home, Keillor writes: "A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."

On December 23, 1965, the Pope declared: "We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice."

Tom Hanks played six different roles in Polar Express: the Hero Boy (motion-capture only), the Hero Boy's father, the Conductor, the Hobo, Santa Claus, and the Narrator.

Martha May Whovier ultimately rejects her other suitor, the Mayor, and chooses the Grinch, who has been crushing on her all his life.

The Martians kidnap two children: Billy & Betty.

On The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, the host joked: "I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.

Roy Rogers wrote these words in A Happy Trails Christmas.

When Bob and Phil discover that the Columbia Inn, run by their former commanding officer, is in danger of failing, they bring the entire cast and crew of their musical Playing Around in to drum up some business.

In Poor Richard's Almanack, Franklin wrote: "How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."