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

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.

Author: Clement C. Moore
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 09/13/2022
Pages: 32
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 11.50h x 10.00w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9781536217995
Language: English