Twas the Night Before Christmas: Or Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas

Twas the Night Before Christmas: Or Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas

Twas the Night Before Christmas: Or Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas

Twas the Night Before Christmas: Or Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas

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Overview

Exquisitely detailed drawings by Matt Tavares embody the spirit of a magical night now in a lavish, full-size gift edition marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the classic poem.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

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 poem “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas”—written by Clement C. Moore in 1822 and published the next year in the Troy Sentinel—a plumper, merrier St. Nick was born, transformed into the sleigh-riding, chimney-diving jolly old elf we now call Santa Claus. With gorgeous monochrome illustrations by Matt Tavares that are meticulously true to pre-Victorian times, this reissue of the holiday favorite ’Twas the Night Before Christmas Or Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas honors the poem’s original language in a definitive keepsake volume.


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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781536217995
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication date: 09/13/2022
Pages: 32
Sales rank: 106,265
Product dimensions: 9.90(w) x 11.40(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range: 3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Matt Tavares is the author-illustrator of numerous acclaimed picture books, including Red and Lulu and Dasher: How a Brave Little Doe Changed Christmas Forever, as well as Becoming Babe Ruth, Growing Up Pedro, and other sports biographies. He is the illustrator of Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by Jeff Gottesfeld and The Gingerbread Pirates by Kristin Kladstrup, among many other picture books. Matt Tavares lives in Maine.

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