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Title: The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore, Lis Toft ISBN: 0-7636-0351-1 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Happy Christmas to All
Comment: This beautiful book was in my family as a hard cover edition for many years and was a Christmas Eve tradition for my four sons when they were growing up. It's poor battered body disappeared some time after the last of my little ones went off into the adult world. I am so delighted to see it back again, though this time as a nicely affordable soft cover. Clement C. Moore's enchanting story poem already provides an atmosphere filled with warmth and joyful expectation and with the addition of Tasha Tudor's quaint, nostalgic water-colors from an antique New England the Christmas magic is complete!
The winter landscapes fill our senses and Tasha's own gray tabby cat and Welsh Corgi welcome us into this charming world.
Tasha's Santa that you will meet in this book has been portrayed as the poem describes him...a right jolly old elf. He's not that much larger than the corgi and his team really consists of eight "tiny" reindeer. His pointy ears and his Eskimo mukluks add to the delightful ambiance of the book. He dances with the toys and with the happy animals and we can truly believe it will be a happy Christmas for all.
I hope this book becomes a Christmas Eve tradition for many, many more families.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book for a great price!!
Comment: In preparing our list of Christmas books to share with others, we had to search far and wide on amazon to find this particular book, a paperback edition of the classic Night Before Christmas.
This is the book I've used for years when reading this story to my own children, passing on Tasha Tudor and other illustrators. Why?
Although we can find the same poem and pay a lot more, with award winning illustrators, the illustrations provided by Douglas Gorsline are surely the best. They are quite colorful, and offer details little children love looking into...cats lie sleepily on the window sill, we see an overview of the town, the presents spilling from the open sack are intriguing and plentiful, and Jolly St. Nick is -- well, quite Jolly (as you can see by looking at the cover!)
The story is an "abridged version" - I'm not sure about other parents, but we read this on Christmas Eve, and we only have so much time and energy. Everything we remember from the classic poem by Clement Clarke Moore is in this version.
(From "'Twas the Night Before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse" to "He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,"HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!" In between we have everything, from the names of the eight tiny reindeer, to a belly that shakes like a bowl full of jelly, including dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky".
In other words, don't be scared off by 'abridged'!)
Perhaps a hardcover edition might be more appropriate if you're giving a gift (unless you're giving to more than one child), but this book is one of the best offers we've found!
A classic done simply and inexpensively!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent artwork! And what child doesn't love this story!
Comment: Each page in this book is definitely a piece of art! Mary Engelbreit outdid herself on this one. I initially checked it out from our local library and then decided I wanted it for our girls. It's a book I want them to be able to read to their own children one day! I would definitely recommend it!
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Title: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg ISBN: 0395389496 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 28 October, 1985 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Queen of Christmas (rpkg) by Mary Engelbreit ISBN: 0060081759 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss ISBN: 0394800796 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 October, 1957 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Night Before Christmas: The Heirloom Edition by Christian Birmingham, Clement Clarke Moore ISBN: 0762410698 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Christmas With Mary Engelbreit : Here Comes Santa Claus by Mary Engelbreit ISBN: 0740725386 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 17 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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