He had great cause for rejoicing -- and all the children throughout the world should have joined him! For Claus had made his first toy! Long ago, a human infant was abandoned in a bewitched woodland. Taking up the boy, the nymph Necile raised him among her fellow immortals -- beginning the strange and wondrous tale of one who would become a master toy-maker -- and a source of joy to all mortal children . . . in this magical world created by L. Frank Baum, the wizard of story-telling.