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category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Sep 2012
ISBN:9781897174838
publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd.

Man in the Red Suit, The

A Memoir

by Bruce Templeton

tagged: personal memoirs
Description

During the past 33 years, St. John's businessman Bruce Templeton has devoted the month of December to visiting children and assisting Santa Claus. At school parties, country clubs, or in the critical-care unit of hospitals, young people ask him profound questions about Santa Claus and the true meaning of Christmas. Templeton has collected hundreds of stories and questions during more than 1000 visits - some of them curious, some happy, and some heartbreaking. In his memoir of three decades he shares some of the most unforgettable questions. Templeton always tries to bring hope and joy through his visits, but he often finds it is the children who change his life and the lives of those who assist him on these extraordinary journeys. For readers who enjoyed the bestselling Tuesdays With Morrie and Everything I Need To Know, I Learned from a Children's Book, Bruce Templeton's memoir will fill them with enough inspiration and joy to last an entire year.

About the Author
Bruce Templeton is an investment advisor, a Rotarian, a past chair of the St. John's Board of Trade and former regional manager for the Bowring retail chain. For the past thirty-eight years he has made approximately fifty Santa visits a season, often in circumstances where Santa's presence, as Bruce puts it, can make the "not so normal" seem "normal" again, for at least a little while. A strong believer in the healing power of the season, he was inducted into the International Santa Claus Hall of Fame, class of 2014, and is currently Canada's only living member. His previous work includes The Man with the White Beard and the national bestseller, The Man in the Red Suit: A Memoir. He lives in Outer Cove, Newfoundland with his wife Paula.
Editorial Review

'The Man in the Red Suit' is a beautiful and gracious book that honors children. Because, you see, it might look as though Santa is the one giving all the gifts -- when all that gift-giving is actually Santa's gesture of thanks for the privilege of knowing them.Darrell Squires, The Western Star

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