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New Children’s Book Brings the Story of Santa Claus Back to Saint Nicholas, by Felix Miller – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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The cover of The Boy Who Would Be Santa, Kharis Publishing. Source: Catholic Vote

By Felix Miller, Catholic Vote, December 4, 2025

A new children’s picture book brings its readers on a journey through the life of Saint Nicholas, the Catholic bishop who inspired the legend of Santa Claus.

Written by Mike McGrew and illustrated by Kim Merritt, The Boy Who Would be Santa aims to both inform children about Christmas’ religious significance and inspire them to pursue sanctity.

In a Dec. 11 email interview, McGrew told CatholicVote that he wrote about Santa in hopes that children would cease to “see him as a secular figure but as a religious person who advocates kindness throughout the year, especially to the less fortunate.”

“Hopefully, they can be motivated to be ‘santas’ themselves,” McGrew added, “through their own faith and good works.” …

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