Brimming with nostalgia, and packed with detail and humour, all readers will be drawn into this magical tale. Admitting that he wrote it "not for publication, but to amuse my children," Moore claimed the Christmas poem in this 1844 letter as his "literary property, however small the intrinsic value of that property may be". A beautiful personalised book gift for the festive period, and a particularly wonderful gift for Christmas Eve. In 1842, the noted poet and editor William Cullen Bryant credited Moore as the author when he included the piece in an anthology of American poetry he had compiled. The classic Christmas verse in a gorgeous gift book from the highly acclaimed author and illustrator P.

According to Kaller, Moore's name was likely written on the book by a New-York Historical Society cataloger to indicate that it had been a gift from Moore to the Society. Having completed a postgraduate degree in children’s book illustration at Cambridge School of Art, she is now an associate lecturer on the same course, as well as a freelance illustrator. But this children’s book, whilst still having the originally poem as the story, has been beautifully illustrated by Robert Dunn. You can personalise your story with a child’s name and choose them a character that looks just like them. And he lit his pipe by the fire, and sat himself down and smoked; and as he smoked, the smoke from his pipe ascended into the air and spread like a cloud overhead.If you are under 16, please obtain your parent/guardian’s permission before submitting or ask your parent/guardian to submit on your behalf.

But Stephen Nissenbaum argues in Battle for Christmas that the poem could have been a social satire of the Victorianization of Christmas.

You can create your own festive story book when pairing the images and the verses, or simply use as toppers and inserts to create your own cards. The poem is read or recited in numerous Christmas films, including Prancer (1989), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), The Santa Clause (1994), Reindeer Games (2000), and Falling for Christmas (2016). An exclusive new Folio edition, Letters from Fairyland features exquisite miniature envelopes filled with heartfelt letters from Fairyland, and is lavishly illustrated with Charles van Sandwyk’s enchanting illustrations. Twas the Night Before Christmas (2022) is a Hallmark Channel film about a town's annual Christmas Eve courtroom production debating the true authorship of the poem.

Therefore, the style and colours are the same, while the chimney shape suggests the poem’s narrative perfectly. I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books. It is also a poem that introduced the modern version of Santa Claus / Father Christmas to the world.

You can print the poem to share in your classroom, to hand out for students to take home, and to use for class discussion. Three festive family favourites exquisitely illustrated in Natee Puttapipat's intricate silhouette style. Twas the Night Before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…' The traditional and much-loved Christmas poem by Clement Clarke Moore, beautifully illustrated and published as a charming picture book for children to enjoy year after year.

A poem that features as a children’s book and is still read today on Christmas Eve to children the world over. I asked if I could bring it to look at in the car and she asked me to read it while she was driving. This special anniversary edition is a visual extravaganza, with 50 pages of full-colour illustrations by Ella Beech.Moore, the poem perfectly captures the anticipation and wonder of Christmas Eve, and it shaped our image of the festive season, including the idea of St. Overall, The Night Before Christmas is a classic Christmas tale that all children love to read and have read to them. It's tradition to read this each Christmas Eve, since it was my daughter's first Christmas I bought her her own copy. After studying at what is now Columbia University he was active as a real estate developer, helping to create the city’s Chelsea neighbourhood – it was open countryside owned by Moore until the 1820s. Moore was also a professor of Oriental and Greek history at a theological college in New York, and served as a trustee of Columbia for several decades, but today is far better known for The Night Before Christmas, published anonymously in 1823 in the New York Sentinel and only acknowledged by Moore two decades later, claiming that he had written it to amuse his children for Christmas in 1822.