Sinterklaas

And it does from a user standpoint and from a consumer standpoint and from when they spend money.

What's interesting to see is that we don't really see strong spikes on Sinterklaas here, which is December 5th in the Netherlands.

So those are most likely bought earlier, probably during Black Friday discount, knowing that it will likely fade out after.

But in Germany, for example, early December holds at almost 2x of a normal week, even if pricing goes back to normal.

I am absolutely, I guess, anxious as you finish the book.

I'll definitely want to circle back and get your opinion on Sinterklaas and how I kind of reimagined that character just as well as, you know, Wenceslas is a little bit out of the time period of this book.

And originally, he was going to be the mentor to Kristoff.

And ultimately, Wenceslas is Kristoff's uncle in the story.

But he wasn't really my mentor.

And

But Sinterklaas, I wanted to make, ultimately bring him to be the mentor for Kristoff.

And you see that relationship over through the books, through the trilogy.

Imagine you're a five-year-old living in the Netherlands.

It's November, and you know Sinterklaas is coming.

By boat, from Spain, on a white horse, and he's bringing presents.

You can put your shoe out at night and he might leave something in it.

There's songs, there are biscuits, there's a television program every evening telling you what Sinterklaas is up to.

And then, on the 5th of December, someone might actually bang on your front door and leave a huge sack of presents outside.

Now imagine you're the parent and you've just moved here and you're standing thinking what exactly is happening? Because you probably grew up with Santa.

This is familiar enough to understand the basic idea but completely different enough to make you wonder whether everyone else got a parenting manual that you have missed.

A big shiny reindeer.

Yeah, or wherever you are in the world, you've got some guy, Sinterklaas or whatever, loads of them.

Yeah, yeah.

And I love all that, but I think in it should be something which is a bit hand-painted, handmade and real and something like you have a

Sometimes she was accompanied by St. Nicholas or Connect Reprext, who questioned the children about their behavior during the past year.

In Holland and in Belgium, St. Nicholas or Sinterklaas brought gifts to the good children and switches to the bad.

The Dutch children believed that Sinterklaas comes from Spain in a boat filled with gifts and is accompanied by a small Moorish servant named Black Pieter.

The Dutch incarnation of St. Nicholas is dressed in his bishop's robes and rides a beautiful snow-white horse.

The children place their shoes before the fireplace where he can find them, and in them they put hay for his horse.

Close quote.

Loose women associated with.

In Holland, a girl of Sinterklaas is a loose woman.

It actually doesn't say.

Remember, was it Sinterklaas? I know what you're talking about.

So nuts.

But I'm good.

And from St. Nick, we get the anglicized Santa Claus.

It came via Holland, where I was born, Sinterklaas.

The anglicized form is St. Nick.

But he was a real person.

Your rest matters too.

And just for the record, Sinterklaas season is coming up and, well, it can carry a kid through quite a lot.

The anticipation, the excitement, the sheer force of a four or a five-year-old's belief that a man on a horse is coming with presents.

They often rally when you least expect it.