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    The story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was written in 1939 by Robert May for Montgomery Ward. It was illustrated by Denver Gillen and over 2.4 million copies were distributed that Christmas. The story became a song in 1949 and is now one of the most popular Christmas songs. Rudolph was not one of Santa's reindeer but lived in a reindeer village. Santa noticed Rudolph's shiny glowing nose and asked him to lead his sleigh on a foggy Christmas Eve so the deliveries would not be delayed. Rudolph agreed and helped complete the route safely with his illuminating nose, gaining acceptance from the other reindeer.

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    The story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was written in 1939 by Robert May for Montgomery Ward. It was illustrated by Denver Gillen and over 2.4 million copies were distributed that Christmas. The story became a song in 1949 and is now one of the most popular Christmas songs. Rudolph was not one of Santa's reindeer but lived in a reindeer village. Santa noticed Rudolph's shiny glowing nose and asked him to lead his sleigh on a foggy Christmas Eve so the deliveries would not be delayed. Rudolph agreed and helped complete the route safely with his illuminating nose, gaining acceptance from the other reindeer.

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    The story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was written in 1939 by Robert May for Montgomery Ward. It was illustrated by Denver Gillen and over 2.4 million copies were distributed that Christmas. The story became a song in 1949 and is now one of the most popular Christmas songs. Rudolph was not one of Santa's reindeer but lived in a reindeer village. Santa noticed Rudolph's shiny glowing nose and asked him to lead his sleigh on a foggy Christmas Eve so the deliveries would not be delayed. Rudolph agreed and helped complete the route safely with his illuminating nose, gaining acceptance from the other reindeer.

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    Dulce Rodrigues: Udolph THE RED Nosed Reindeer

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    RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER

    By Dulce Rodrigues

    The story of the red-nosed reindeer Rudolph appeared around Christmas 1939. It was written by

    Robert May, an employee in the advertising department of Montgomery Ward stores at Chicago,

    and illustrated by Denver Gillen.

    The story booklet was distributed by Santa at the stores; it was a best-seller and more than

    2.4 million copies were given away that Christmas. The original name of the reindeer was Rollo,

    but May’s boss did not like it, and the name Rudolph came from the author’s young daughter.

    Ten years later, Robert May asked his brother-in-law Johny Marks, who was a composer,

    to make a musical version of the story. It had again a great success and is second only to “White

    Christmas” in popularity.

    Now, let me share the story with you. As you may remember, Santa’s sleigh is pulled by

    eight reindeer, whose names are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Donder, Cupid, and

    Blitzen. But there is also a ninth reindeer… the youthful Rudolph.

    Contrarily to what is generally believed, Rudolph was neither one of Santa’s reindeer nor

    the offspring of one of his reindeer. Rudolph did not live with Santa’s reindeer either. Instead, he

    lived in a reindeer village somewhere else, and Santa caught sight of Rudolph’s nose quite by

    accident. When delivering presents to Rudolph’s house, Santa noticed the glow emanating from
    Rudolph’s room! Rudolph had indeed a very shiny nose, and if you ever saw it, you’d even say it

    glowed. All of the other reindeer used to laugh at Rudolph and call him names, and they never let

    poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games.

    With his red nose, Rudolph was however capable of seeing through the  thick fog. So one

    foggy Christmas Eve, worried that the thickening fog could be the cause of an accident or delays

    and would keep him from completing his Christmas Eve rounds, Santa came to Rudolph and

    said: Rudolph, with your glowing nose, won’t you come and lead my sleigh tonight?

    Rudolph immediately agreed to lead Santa’s sleigh. But Rudolph was a responsible

    reindeer with a good self-image and sense of worth, so before leaving he stopped to write a note

    for his parents.

    The luminosity of Rudolph’s nose was so great that it illuminated the team’s path through

    the foggy night, and Santa’s task could safely be accomplished. The young red-nosed reindeer

    was very proud of himself! And he was finally treated better by his fellow reindeer for his

    heroism. All the reindeer loved him, and shouted out with delight: Rudolph the red-nose

    Reindeer, you’ll go down in history!

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