by Hiroko Motai

illustrations: Marika Maijala

translation: Karolina Iwaszkiewicz

A perverse picture book about what it's like with this Santa Claus after all.

Once upon a time there was only one Santa Claus in the world. And since there were also fewer people then, he managed to deliver gifts to all the children without any problems. But there were still more and more people - and gifts to be delivered too. Finally, Santa Claus asked God to turn him into two Santa Clauses. Two Santa Clauses delivered gifts twice as fast - but they were now half the size. And the number of people kept coming and going ...

A small, child-free book that provides a brilliant answer to one of the most difficult Christmas questions.

One million billion Santa Clauses won the award for the most beautiful Finnish book of 2014 in a competition organized by the Finnish Book Art Committee.