Twas the Night Before Christmas By Matt Tavares, Like New! Illustrations are in Sepia Tones.

– Is perfect for family read-alouds or gatherings
– Makes a great holiday, Advent, or Christmas gift
– A classic for children ages of all ages or the young at heart

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, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Or Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas honors the poem’s original language in a definitive keepsake volume.