Briefe an den heiligen NikolausLetters to Saint Nicholas

A serial story in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, English, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese and Chinese 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, French, Italian, Portuguese, English, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese and Chinese, 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
• Lettere a San Nicola · Italian
• Cartas a São Nicolau · Portuguese
• Letters to Saint Nicholas · English
• Γράμματα στον Άγιο Νικόλαο · Greek
• संत निकोलस के नाम चिट्ठियाँ · Hindi
• Surat untuk Santo Nikolas · Indonesian
• 聖ニコラウスへの手紙 · Japanese
• 성 니콜라우스에게 보내는 편지 · Korean
• Brieven aan Sint-Nicolaas · Dutch
• Listy do świętego Mikołaja · Polish
• Scrisori către Sfântul Nicolae · Romanian
• Aziz Nikolaos’a Mektuplar · Turkish
• Thư gửi Thánh Nicôla · Vietnamese
• 致圣尼古拉的信 · Chinese