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Terry Pratchett's Hogfather
As another alternative, you can have a non-Christian winter celebration and still have a big fat guy in a sleigh who dishes out presents. The sleigh is pulled by hogs, with names like gouger and rooter, and for kids who haven't been good he leaves a bag of bloody bones, but all of that just makes him more awe-inspiring than our currently watered down, bland and insipid commercial Santa. For extra fun, when the big guy goes missing, another anthropomorphic personification, Death, has to fill in for him. HO HO HO. Pratchett's an atheist, but I think his fables are suitable for all, including Christians. Ideal for "interfaith" families, perhaps.