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"My goal was to create a captivating story so my children would learn valuable lessons about kindness, bravery, and history in a way that's engaging and memorable. This adventure has taught my kids positive values as they face real-life challenges as adults."
— Dr. P (Author)
“Santa is a hero to children — and a reminder to adults.”
Most Christmas stories ask children to believe in magic.
This one blends holiday wonder with real history, real people, difficult choices, and hidden clues families can discover together.
Children will follow the adventure.
Parents will see the breadcrumbs.
Adult Questions About This Story
Is it safe for my child to email Santa?
Yes — with a parent’s help.
ChrisKringle.com asks families to use a parent’s email address, not a child’s personal email address. This allows parents to stay part of the experience and read Santa’s reply with their child.
Santa’s responses are designed to be joyful, age-appropriate, and family-friendly.
Children may send Christmas wishes, ask kind questions, or share what they are excited about this year. Parents are encouraged to guide the message, review the reply, and enjoy the magic together.
Some Santa secrets are saved for the books — but every message is treated with care.
What is the rating of this information?
The children’s picture book is designed for families and younger readers. It focuses on the joyful, magical, and heartwarming parts of Santa’s story — family, friendship, kindness, reindeer, elves, and Christmas wonder.
The main Christopher Kringle book series is written for older children, teens, and families who enjoy deeper adventure stories. It includes mystery, danger, villains, historical events, emotional moments, and action, but it does not include sexual content or strong language.
Think of the series as a family adventure with the depth of a classic mystery: exciting enough for older readers, meaningful enough for parents, and magical enough to keep Christmas alive.
Parents are encouraged to read along, especially with younger children, because the books include real history, hidden clues, and deeper themes that can lead to great family conversations.
Suggested guidance:
Picture Book: family-friendly
Main Book Series: best for read-aloud family nights ages 6+ and independent readers around ages 10–13+
Who is the author?
The Christopher Kringle Universe™ was created by Dr. P, a father, storyteller, and longtime Christmas dreamer who began building this world as a story for his own children.
The picture books are written under the Christopher Kringle name because the story is meant to feel as if it comes from inside the Kringle family itself — a hidden record of Santa’s life, friendships, mysteries, and adventures.
Dr. P’s goal is simple: to make Santa feel real again.
Through books, music, videos, history, and family-friendly mysteries, the Christopher Kringle Universe™ invites parents and children to discover a deeper Christmas story together.
The picture books are designed for younger readers and family Christmas conversations.
The main book series is a richer adventure for older children, teens, and parents who enjoy history, clues, hidden meanings, and stories that grow beyond the page.
When did this story begin?
The Christopher Kringle Universe™ began in 1999 as a bedtime story Dr. P told his children during the Christmas season.
What started as a simple holiday story kept growing.
Year after year, the adventure became deeper — adding mystery, history, family, friendship, hidden clues, and the question at the heart of it all:
What if Santa’s story was bigger than anyone imagined?
After more than twenty years of world building, Dr. P was encouraged to write everything down. During 2020, the full nine-book storyline came together, and the series began its journey through professional editing, structure, and development.
Today, the Christopher Kringle Universe™ includes books, music, videos, historical secrets, family conversations, and a growing world beyond the page.
Many early readers have called the story “unbelievable” because of the depth of history, clues, and Santa secrets woven throughout the series.
Dr. P’s answer is simple:
A story this big takes time.
Why was this story created?
The story was created because children ask big questions.
Dr. P discovered that Christmas conversations opened the door to almost everything: kindness, courage, honesty, history, science, invention, family, loss, friendship, and the choices that shape a person’s life.
Santa became the guide.
Instead of teaching children through lectures, the Christopher Kringle Universe™ uses adventure, mystery, humor, and hidden clues to help families talk about real ideas in a way children actually enjoy.
The goal is simple:
To make learning feel like magic.
Children follow the story.
Parents recognize the lessons.
And along the way, families discover that Santa’s secrets are really conversations about becoming better people.
How can my child contact Santa?
Children can contact Santa through the Email Santa link at the top of this website.
For safety, we ask families to use a parent’s email address, not a child’s personal email address. That way, parents can stay involved and enjoy Santa’s reply with their child.
Children may send Santa their Christmas wishes, ask kind questions, or share what they are excited about this year.
Families may also call Santa and leave a voice message.
Some questions are part of Santa’s deeper story and may be saved for the books — but every message is read with care and answered in a joyful, family-friendly way.
The Deeper You Look, the More You Find
Why is Santa's favorite number 57?
Why is Santa's favorite number 57?
Why is Santa's favorite number 57?
The Christopher Kringle Universe™ is filled with clues, numbers, names, places, and hidden connections. Some are easy to spot.
Others may not make sense until later books. That is part of the fun.
Some details in this series are not accidents.
Chris’s favorite number, 57, is one of the first breadcrumbs hiding in plain sight — a small clue connected to future stories, real history, and the deeper mythology of the Kringle family.
Children can enjoy the adventure without noticing it.
Parents and older readers may begin to wonder what the number means.
Why is Wally's favorite number 42?
Why is Santa's favorite number 57?
Why is Santa's favorite number 57?
Wally’s favorite number, 42, carries its own meaning.
Like Wally himself, it points toward courage, history, loyalty, and the hidden role he plays in Chris’s life.
Wally is not just Chris’s friend. He is his protector, his brother, and one of the most important characters in the Christopher Kringle Universe™.