'Twas the Night Before Christmas |
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| Illustrator:
| Tavares, Matt |
| Author:
| Anonymous, A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7636-1585-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2002 |
| Publisher: | Candlewick Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $27.99 |
Book Description:
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Dramatic, authentically rendered monochrome illustrations, accented with gold foil, bring a Christmas classic to life. Once upon a time, children imagined St. Nicholas as a stern, skinny bishop who was as likely to dole out discipline as Christmas presents. But thanks to the anonymous publication of the poem "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" in the TROY SENTINEL in 1823, a plumper, merrier St. Nick was born, transformed into the sleigh-riding, chimney-diving,...
More Description Dramatic, authentically rendered monochrome illustrations, accented with gold foil, bring a Christmas classic to life.
Once upon a time, children imagined St. Nicholas as a stern, skinny bishop who was as likely to dole out discipline as Christmas presents. But thanks to the anonymous publication of the poem "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" in the TROY SENTINEL in 1823, a plumper, merrier St. Nick was born, transformed into the sleigh-riding, chimney-diving, jolly old elf we now call Santa Claus.
This immensely popular, hugely influential poem - better known by its first line, " 'Twas the night before Christmas" - now gets its just treatment as an American icon. Featuring gorgeous monochrome illustrations that are painstakingly true to pre-Victorian times, this definitive edition reflects the original spelling and punctuation - and is published anonymously, just as it was in 1823, in keeping with the controversy over who really wrote this marvelous work.