Rudolph' started as a children's book at a department store “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” started out as a children's story first released by Montgomery Ward in 1939. The department store ...

Moore or Henry Livingston Jr. Image The “Rudolph” book that inspired the song.Credit...via the Smithsonian National Museum of American History collection “May’s Rudolph seemed tailor-made ...

I have known for years that Robert May, father of my law school classmate Chris, wrote the book about Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. But I did not know the details. Recently, Chris gathered some ...

Rudolph' started as a children's book at a department store “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” started out as a children's story first released by Montgomery Ward in 1939. The department store ...

Montgomery Ward wanted its own book as a cost-saving measure. Rudolph proved popular, writes Smithsonian. In its first year of publication, 2.4 million copies of Rudolph’s story were distributed ...