The Night Before Christmas
Here at Laughing Elephant, we have more than fifty versions of this wonderful poem in our library - this is one of our favorites.

The immortal words of ""Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house ... "" have never sounded better than in Laughing Elephant's facsimile of the 1917 poem. Retaining the original illustrations and text, this reproduction is both familiar and completely unique. And, Margaret Evans Price has created one of the kindest Santas ever imagined - just look at the cover! Her illustrations blend beautifully with Clement Clarke Moore's famous words, creating the perfect Christmas time story. Laughing Elephant's The Night Before Christmas also features the original die-cut shape, with an additional and extremely appealing rounded top.

This is an ideal first Night Before Christmas for a young child. Read it before bedtime and watch the young ones drift off to sleep with visions of sugarplums in their heads. All is calm, all is bright.
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The Night Before Christmas
Here at Laughing Elephant, we have more than fifty versions of this wonderful poem in our library - this is one of our favorites.

The immortal words of ""Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house ... "" have never sounded better than in Laughing Elephant's facsimile of the 1917 poem. Retaining the original illustrations and text, this reproduction is both familiar and completely unique. And, Margaret Evans Price has created one of the kindest Santas ever imagined - just look at the cover! Her illustrations blend beautifully with Clement Clarke Moore's famous words, creating the perfect Christmas time story. Laughing Elephant's The Night Before Christmas also features the original die-cut shape, with an additional and extremely appealing rounded top.

This is an ideal first Night Before Christmas for a young child. Read it before bedtime and watch the young ones drift off to sleep with visions of sugarplums in their heads. All is calm, all is bright.
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The Night Before Christmas

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement C. Moore
The Night Before Christmas

The Night Before Christmas

by Clement C. Moore

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Here at Laughing Elephant, we have more than fifty versions of this wonderful poem in our library - this is one of our favorites.

The immortal words of ""Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house ... "" have never sounded better than in Laughing Elephant's facsimile of the 1917 poem. Retaining the original illustrations and text, this reproduction is both familiar and completely unique. And, Margaret Evans Price has created one of the kindest Santas ever imagined - just look at the cover! Her illustrations blend beautifully with Clement Clarke Moore's famous words, creating the perfect Christmas time story. Laughing Elephant's The Night Before Christmas also features the original die-cut shape, with an additional and extremely appealing rounded top.

This is an ideal first Night Before Christmas for a young child. Read it before bedtime and watch the young ones drift off to sleep with visions of sugarplums in their heads. All is calm, all is bright.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780553522266
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication date: 09/08/2015
Series: Big Golden Board Book Series
Pages: 24
Product dimensions: 9.20(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Clement Clarke Moore (1779 - 1863) was an American writer and professor. His poem "An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas, " first published anonymously in 1823, became known as the Christmas classic "The Night Before Christmas. " The story was written as a Christmas gift for his six children. Moore was a lifelong New Yorker and died in his summer home in Newport, Rhode Island.

Margaret Evans Price (1888 – 1973) was a toy manufacturer, artist, illustrator, and designer from New York. Founder of Fisher Price toys (along with her husband Irving Price and their collaborator Herman Fisher), she lived in East Aurora, New York with her family, where she designed toys to resemble the characters from her children’s books.

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The Night Before Christmas


By Barbara Reid, Clement C. Moore

ALBERT WHITMAN & Company

Copyright © 2013 Barbara Reid
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8075-5625-2


CHAPTER 1

    'Twas the night before Christmas,
    when all through the house
    Not a creature was stirring,
    not even a mouse.

    The stockings were hung
    by the chimney with care,
    In hopes that St. Nicholas
    soon would be there.

    The children were nestled
    all snug in their beds,

    While visions of sugarplums
    danced in their heads;

    And Mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
    Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,

    When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
    I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

    Away to the window I flew like a flash,
    Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
    The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
    Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,
    When, what to my wondering eyes did appear,
    But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer,
    With a little old driver so lively and quick,
    I knew in a moment he must be St. Nick.

    More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
    And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:
    "Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen!
    On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen!
    To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall!
    Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"

    As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
    When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
    So up to the housetop the coursers they flew,

    With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.
    And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
    The prancing and pawing
    of each little hoof.

    As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
    Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
    He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
    And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
    A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
    And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.


(Continues...)

Excerpted from The Night Before Christmas by Barbara Reid, Clement C. Moore. Copyright © 2013 Barbara Reid. Excerpted by permission of ALBERT WHITMAN & Company.
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