12/25/23

Book of the Week (12/25/2023)

The Night Before Christmas
 by Clement C. Moore, illustrated by Tomie dePaola (Holiday House, 1980)

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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