What better book to feature this week than this classic that turned 200 years on December 23, perfectly illustrated by New Hampshire author/illustrator Tomie dePaola!
With warm colors and cozy art, award-winning artist Tomie dePaola brings the beloved holiday poem to life. Detailed decorations and family portraits hang on the walls of a turn of the 19th century New England home as the family sleeps, snuggled into cozy geometric quilts—until the clatter of little hooves on the roof wakes them.Rosy-cheeked St. Nicholas appears, filling the stockings with dolls and blocks, toy animals and candy canes, before taking off over the snow-capped hills in his sleigh. Framed by borders inspired by traditional New England quilts, the warm illustrations are full of cheerful details kids will love to pore over. --Publisher's blurb
A Visit from St. Nicholas, more commonly known as The Night Before Christmas and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas is a poem that was first published anonymously under the title Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas in the Troy, New York Sentinel on December 23, 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore.
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