20 December 2022
Nicholas Was... by Neil Gaiman - Animated Version
If you haven't been looking forward to Christmas and you think you are going to have a terrible time then spare a thought for Saint Nicholas. Father Christmas, Santa Claus - whatever name you use for him, consider this. Howe many centuries has this poor man endured his yearly task to take presents to the (sometimes ungrateful) children of the world?
Not only that, he disappears before the children wake up and have a chance to thank him. Well, by way of thanks - or at least commiseration - here is a wonderful animated version of the Neil Gaiman poem Nicholas Was...
It is actually the creation of 39 Degrees North, a Beijing based animation studio and there way of doing the same thing. Don't have nightmares for poor old Santa...