This gallery features drawings by children around the world, depicting what they would like to receive from Santa Claus this Christmas.
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Among the usual requests for Lego and Barbie accessories are some moving wishes. A little girl from Prague would love cats and dogs to love each other. A leukaemia sufferer from Beirut says all she wants is to recover – and an iPad. And a 10-year-old girl from Macedonia says she just wants her parents to be friends again. Scroll through the slideshow below to read their Christmas wishes.
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Zofie Cizkova, 8, from Prague, Czech Republic, said: "I want all the dogs to love all the cats."David W Cerny/Reuters
Zofie Cizkova, 8, from Prague, Czech Republic, said: "I want all the dogs to love all the cats."David W Cerny/ReutersKhanyo Mchunu, 13, from Embo, an informal settlement in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, wants a house.Rogan Ward/ReutersLeukaemia sufferer Lynn Habbouche, 6, from Beirut, Lebanon, said all she wants from Santa is to recover and an iPad.Jamal Saidi/ReutersDiana Zhaldak, 4, from Kiev, Ukraine, wants a magical, musical house where she can play.Gleb Garanich/ReutersDavid Arias, 5, from Santa Monica, California, and pictured at UCLA Medical Centre, wants a police motorbike.Lucy Nicholson/ReutersOnari Abigail, 8, from Managua, Nicaragua, wants a castle full of princes and princesses.Oswaldo Rivas/ReutersMila (no photo), 10, from Skopje, Macedonia, wants her parents to be friends again.Ognen Teofilvovski/ReutersWilliam Lawson, 11, from Oadby, Leicestershire, England, said: "My grandpa, who takes me to my rugby matches, says I should ask for a set of golf clubs for him – but I would quite like a new pair of rugby boots for Christmas."Darren Staples/ReutersTaj, 10, from Encinitas, California, would like fruit trees for his new home and a leaf blower to help clean his garden.Mike Blake/ReutersMorena Fay, 9, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, said: "I want to ask Papa Noel (Santa Claus) to bring me an electric guitar this Christmas, because I love music and I've wanted one for a long time."Marcos Brindicci/ReutersDora Stanzl, 8, from Zagreb, Croatia, wants love and peace in the world and a diary.Antonio Bronic/ReutersPika Feliciana Kranjec, 4, from Kranj, Slovenia, wants a small lollipop.Srdjan Zivulovic/ReutersZeynep Akgul, 8, from Ankara, Turkey, said: "I want to live in Paris with my best friend Alya. I want a house in Paris from Santa. I want to live in France because I was there for holiday this summer. I like Paris, I like people there. Everything in Paris is the way I like."Umit Bektas/ReutersNatsuki Ariga, 9, from Tokyo, Japan, wants to get comic books on Japanese and world history. "Santa gives me a present every year for working hard. That's why I practice Electone (Yamaha's electronic organ), abacus and track and field very hard, " he said.Toru Hanai/ReutersJasmine Maria, 6, from Balham, south London, wants a Playmobil hospital. "I want to match with my Playmobil castle, so that those people in there, can go into the hospital."Stefan Wermuth/ReutersRaphaela Bernard, 4, from Altadena, California, wants a fairy garden.Mario Anzuoni/ReutersPalesa Vinger, 12, from GillView, a suburb south of Johannesburg, South Africa, said she would love for Santa to give her a pair of Nike sneakers. "My mother promised to buy me one once I pass my grade, but I don't trust she will keep her promises."Siphiwe Sibeko/ReutersJaedene Alyzxandra Medina, 5, from Las Pinas, Metro Manila, Philippines, said she wants a pet bunny because her mom doesn't allow her to have a pet dog or cat.Erik De Castro/ReutersAlicia, 4, from the Tarahumara indigenous community in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, wants a winter jacket and clothes for her cousins.Jose Luis Gonzalez/ReutersDana Augustane, 10, from Riga, Latvia, said: "I want to ask Santa to bring me a pyjama like my best friend Felicita has."Ints Kalnins/ReutersNela Ragulova, 6, from Trencianske Stankovce, Slovakia, wants LegoRadovan Stoklasa/ReutersCamila Garcia, 2, a migrant from Venezuela now in Quito, Ecuador, wants a new bear.Guillermo Granja/ReutersSandro, 6, from Tbilisi, Georgia, wants to get a Captain America Lego set. He said he believes Santa can see his drawing and guess what he wants and he is waiting for his gift to be found under the Christmas tree.David Mdzinarishvili/ReutersDmitriy Kuchur, 5, from Minsk, Belarus, wants Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.Vasily Fedosenko/ReutersBenjamin Valeriani, 7, from Montevideo, Uruguay, asked Santa for "Many, many presents and a Titanic building block kit from Lego."Andres Stapff/ReutersZofia, 8, from Warsaw, Poland, wrote: "Dear Santa, I would like to get a cat. But a Robopanda would be OK too. I hope to see you this time. Zosia."Kacper Pempel/ReutersMaxim, almost 4, from Belgrade, Serbia, said he would like to get a plastic dinosaur.Marko Djurica/ReutersYoselin Ortuno, 5, from Caracas, Venezuela, wrote: "Hello dear Santa, all year long I have behaved well at home and at school and I ask you to bring me a doll, a stroller and a bottle."Marco Bello/ReutersMatias Ugarte, 6, from Mexico City, wants a bicycle.Henry Romero/ReutersSebastian Contreras, 8, from Santa Tecla, El Salvador, wants a BB 8 robot.Jose Cabezas/ReutersIsabel Lawson, 12, from Measham, Leicestershire, England, said: "I would like a nomination bracelet (charm bracelet) with a charm of the Spanish flag and a pink bunny. A pink bunny was my cuddly toy when I was a baby and we went to Spain in our camper van this summer."Darren Staples/ReutersOlivier Bommeli, 8, fromn Bern, Switzerland, said he wants a jerboa.Ruben Sprich/ReutersAdina Serikbayeva, 7, from Almaty, Kazakhstan, hopes to get a house for her Barbie doll.Shamil Zhumatov/ReutersTom Alves, 10, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, said: "Now I prefer a computer. Before I wanted a video game, but on the computer I can do more things other than playing."Pilar Olivares/ReutersGeorgie Kidd, 10, from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, wants a fox.Rebecca Naden/ReutersEmma Stanisic, 9, from Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, wants a new phone or a tablet. For her brother she wants a toy, candy and a new frame for his glasses.Dado Ruvic/ReutersIsabella Grunewald, 5, from Hanau, Germany, hopes for a living bird as a pet and also a mermaid, a unicorn and an elf as fluffy toys because that is what she "likes most to play with at the moment".Kai Pfaffenbach/ReutersAnna Krylova, 7, from the settlement of Zagoryansky, outside Moscow, Russia, said she wants a Lalaloopsy doll.Grigory Dukor/ReutersClemence, 11, from Aran-sur-Vilette, Switzerland, said: "I've wanted a Newfoundland dog for many years, and even more since working with them during a summer course."Denis Balibouse/Reuters
