Series
Briefe an den heiligen NikolausLetters to Saint Nicholas
For forty years someone has answered every child’s letter to Saint Nicholas. Leila wants to know who. The postman knows, and won’t say.
10 episodesB1
About the series
A serial story in German, Spanish and French that grows with you, episode by episode. Free to read in the browser, each with a translation beside every paragraph.
A Christmas serial in German, Spanish and French, written for this library, with a translation beside every line. Every November the children of St Nicholas Square post their letters to Saint Nicholas in a wooden box in the church porch, and every child gets an answer before Christmas, in old-fashioned handwriting, signed “N.”, with no stamp. Nobody has found out who writes them. Leila, a journalist, comes home from Toronto for the first time in five years, and she needs a story. Ben, the postman, delivers the answers, and says he knows nothing. He is very bad at it.
Ten episodes, written at level B1: a gentle secret, one clue an episode, and a slow romance between a woman who wants to leave and a man who never will. Read one a day through Advent. The same square and the same neighbours appear in the other Christmas series too, each at its own level, so the story grows with you.
- Briefe an den heiligen Nikolaus · German
- Cartas a San Nicolás · Spanish
- Lettres à saint Nicolas · French