'Twas the Night Before Christmas

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'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Written by Clement C. Moore
Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9781536222852
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas

author: Clement C. Moore
illustrator: P.J. Lynch

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house . . .

P.J. Lynch brings his rich and atmospheric art to the well-loved holiday poem. Children will pore over every cozy detail in these warm, sweeping watercolor illustrations—from snug mice to stockings hung by the chimney with care to toys in the bundle flung over merry St. Nicholas’s back. A glowing interpretation of a favorite read-aloud, this is a keepsake volume to cherish and return to year after year.

The classic Christmas verse in an elegant new gift edition—breathtakingly illustrated by P.J. Lynch.
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isbn-10/isbn-13:
1536222852 /  9781536222852
on sale date:
11/2021
type/format:
Fiction - Illustrated Classic / Hardback
age range:
3 yrs - 7 yrs
# of pages/size:
32 / 11" x 10"
grade range:
Preschool - Grade 2
 
subjects:
General; Holidays & Celebrations; Poetry (see Also Stories In Verse);
author’s comments:
Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863) was an American academic and poet who is best known for the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas,” now more commonly referred to as “ ’Twas the Night Before Christmas.”
illustrator’s comments:
P.J. Lynch is the author-illustrator of The Haunted Lake and The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower, or John Howland’s Good Fortune. Meticulous research informs all of his illustration work, and his acclaimed picture books include The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest. Among many honors and awards, P.J. Lynch has received the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and the Christopher Medal three times. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.
 
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