Real Santa

Real Santa is a funny poignant novel that shows us what one man will do to keep his daughters innocence intact by preserving her lbelief in Santa Claus. Bob Kronenfeldt is an unemployed engineer with one shot to keep his daughters belief in Santa intact. When she tells him the only way she will believe in Santa is if she can videotape him and then tells her fourth grade class she will prove the existence of Santa Claus by posting her video to YouTube; Bob realizes he must become the Real Santa. He devises a way to actually land nine reindeer on his roof and go down his chimney to deliver the gifts and then go back up the chimney and fly away with the reindeer. He hires a broken down movie director and ends up funding a full scale production that bankrupts him and threatens his marriage. When he goes to find the "Real Santa" to help him, the line between what is real and magic is crossed. It is a funny heartwarming story of parenthood gone wrong and illuminates what lengths parents will go to keep their children happy.