The Night before Christmas (Grosset & Dunlap All Aboard Book) - Softcover

Clement C. Moore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0448404826 ISBN 13: 9780448404820

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, 1993

Synopsis

St. Nick and eight tiny reindeer descend through a brilliant night sky, and so the famous Christmas poem begins. Jan Brett captures the spirit of Clement Moore's classic poem in glorious illustrations. As St. Nick goes to work, he doesn't realize there are two stowaways from the North Pole exploring the sacks of gifts on the roof! A unique and beautiful edition, which all the family will cherish for years to come.

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Review:

Whose tiny faces are peeking out from Santa's golden sleigh? Yikes! It's two of Santa's elves who are Christmas Eve stowaways. Beloved illustrator Jan Brett's version of The Night Before Christmas lets these two mischievous elves add their rambunctious spirit to this familiar 1823 rhyming story. Here, Santa and his reindeer land on the snowy roof of a Victorian mansion in New England. While Santa delivers the toys inside, the elves and the reindeer frolic around the lawn, as a pig (earmarked for a girl named Jan) and a few alphabet blocks spill out of sacks into the snow. Santa swiftly reins in the mischief-makers and "away they all flew like the down on a thistle." Brett's richly illustrated borders are lavishly decorated with antique toys, ornaments, and sweet treats, all surrounded with twisting golden ribbons. They also give us a window on the mansion's inhabitants, including the children watching Santa's departure in awe. A sugarplum of a Christmas story, just right for a reading before "a long winter's nap." (Click to see a sample spread. Illustrations ©1998 by Jan Brett. Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers.) (Ages 3 to 6) --Marcie Bovetz

Book Description:

Hardcover edition:
$16.00
ISBN  978-0-395-06952-3
Paperback edition:
$5.95
ISBN  978-0-395-64374-7

Paper over board edition:
$14.00
ISBN  978-0-618-61682-4

Paperback edition:
$6.99
ISBN  978-0-618-61510-0

About this edition

• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0448404826
• ISBN 13: 9780448404820
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Jean Hirashima