The Kingdom of Santa Claus is a cross-generational transmedia IP created by Giorgio Onorato Aquilani, designed to bring and keep wonder alive inside real life, helping people grow without losing it.
It tells different stories for children, families, and adults, all belonging to the same emotional and narrative ecosystem.
It is a year-round mythology with a natural seasonal peak, built around a simple but radical idea: Christmas as a universal point of emotional and familial access. The last shared moment where magic is still socially accepted in real life, children experience wonder, adults remember it, and families briefly realign.
Within the Kingdom’s narrative universe, characters and stories become a shared emotional language used to explore and mirror universal human experiences such as wonder, growth, loss, memory, friendship, and identity.
Its recurring message is: magic is a choice.
The Kingdom of Santa Claus Universe operates on a dual-layer narrative system: Reality and Fantasy
1) The Real World
Contemporary life: families, disillusionment, burnout, growing up, generational fractures, loss of meaning.
2) The Kingdom
A symbolic realm where imagination, memory, and forgotten identity are reawakened.
Narrative Engine
Every developed content is designed to speak simultaneously to different generations.
1) To Adults:
It speaks to the child that still lives inside every adult.
It reminds them that growing up does not mean becoming cynical, and that wonder can be consciously chosen again in real life.
2) To Children:
It speaks to the future adult inside every child.
It tells them they can grow up, take responsibility, and face reality without giving up their dreams, imagination, or emotional openness.
This dual system allows the same universe to deliver different messages to different ages, while remaining emotionally coherent.
What if the magic we lose growing up was never gone, but waiting to be consciously chosen again?
Back to Magic is a cross-generational novel that leads both its protagonist and its reader toward a powerful revelation: one that invites readers to rediscover wonder, belief and emotional openness at any age.
Blending realism and wonder, the story follows a disillusioned writer who is forced to confront the stories, memories, and beliefs he has abandoned. Through an unexpected journey that bridges the real world and a hidden realm of imagination called The Kingdom of Santa Claus, the novel explores how magic can be consciously chosen and remain vivid in adult life.
Written for both young and adult readers, Back to Magic speaks to those who feel they have lost connection with their inner child, offering a story that reconnects generations and restores that precious bond.
Back to Magic is a transformational journey that leads readers to return to reality with new eyes, building toward a final revelation that reframes Santa Claus as something larger than myth: a role, a choice, and a responsibility anyone can embody.
Narrative model:
Reality → Threshold → Kingdom → Return to reality transformed
The Kingdom of Santa Claus is a fully developed fantasy world counting 18 characters and illustrated stories led by Lucy the Star, where imagination, adventure, kindness, and curiosity are nurtured and exercised, becoming tools for growing up.
At the center of this world is a clear narrative mission:
to help children grow into adults without losing their dreams, and to help adults remember who they once were.
The Kingdom is designed to be expandable and serial, supporting long-form sagas, short stories, animation, educational content, and live experiences, all within the same coherent mythology.
Giorgio Onorato Aquilani is an author and world-builder. Back to Magic is his international fiction debut and serves as the gateway to a wider transmedia world centered on wonder, memory, and emotional reconnection called The Kingdom of Santa Claus. His work bridges literature, imagination, and real-world experience, positioning him as a new voice in cross-generational storytelling. He is also the creator of the illustrated children’s saga Lucy, published in Italy and aimed at families and young readers, which explores the same narrative universe through a different tone and format.