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Hugo Kringle is Coming to Town !

Mike Anderson is an award-winning teacher , author , musician , and even more award-winning children ’ s performer . Now , as Hugo Kringle , and a stand-in for his brother Santa , Mike Anderson travels the country making holiday appearances .

The journey has seen the creation of 3 award-winning picture books : The Magic Bag tells how Kris Kringle got the bag that holds way too many toys . The Flying Bunnies tells how Santa can fly random animals , including reindeer and brothers . Santa ’ s Secret Gift confirms why sometimes Santa sometimes brings what is needed instead of wanted . All three books won a Santa ’ s Choice award .
As an audio book , those stories and 3 more , received a Mom ’ s Choice Silver Award . It consists of six stories about Hugo Kringle seeing Kris Kringle get his magical powers . Each story is about six minutes long , just the right length for holiday bedtime stories .
Hugo created 2 secular sing-along recordings : Santa ’ s Choice winner Christmas Songs , a collection of Santa song favorites and Dance Like Frosty , a collection of Anderson originals selected by Creative Child Magazine as 2021 Children ’ s Holiday recording of the year . The recordings feature dulcimer , banjo , jaw harp , bones , and vocals . No canned music was used on either recording .
Not only are these products available for wholesale and retail sales . But Mike Anderson ( as Hugo ) is available nationally for appearances and promotions in-person and virtually .
The books and recordings are available for retail and wholesale at hugokringle . com / wholesale . html and are targeted towards the 7 and under crowd .