'The Quest for Father Christmas' was written by John Papworth while working as an adviser to the President of Zambia in 1970. It was unearthd from a trunk in a St. John's Wood attic in 1992 and set to pictures by Connie Lindqvist in 1993. 'The Quest for Father Christmas' tells the story of a group of children who set out to find Father Christmas. In their travels they meet up with The Three Kings, Mary & Joseph, Good King Wenceslas, The Good Witch and The Old Lamplighter. A morality tale set at Christmas time and written as a musical entertainment in which children take the leading parts and everyone else can sing their favourite carols to their hearts' content. A playmaker's (manuscript) edition of The Quest for Father Christmas has been available since 1993 but the work has only recently become available to a wider public with its publication on the internet as Academic Inn Books' webcard for Christmas 2003.

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