Santa Claus

You might think of Santa Claus as a chubby old man. He has a white beard and wears a red suit, right? And he’s sometimes called St. Nick. There hasn’t always been a Santa Claus. At least not like the one with the white beard and red suit.

St. Nick is short for Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas was a real person who lived long ago. No, he never lived at the North Pole. He was born in Greece about two thousand years ago. Nicholas worked as a bishop in the Catholic church.