The Night Before Christmas: A Classic Illustrated Edition

Name: The Night Before Christmas: A Classic Illustrated Edition
Rating: 4.321428571428571 (56 reviews)
Author: Clement C. Moore
ISBN: 9780618615100

by Clement C. Moore, Cooper Edens, Harold Darling

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(56 ratings)

Jump at the Sun Holiday Classics50 pages166 editions2005Houghton Mifflin HarcourtISBN 9780618615100

Fiction Children's Poetry

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About this book

The well-known poem about a famous Christmas visitor is accompanied by illustrations by various nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists.

Publication Details

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2005
Pages: 50
ISBN: 9780618615100
Language: en
Editions: 166

About Clement C. Moore

Clement Clarke Moore is credited and is most widely known as the author of the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", first published anonymously in 1823. It later became widely known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" and has been published in numerous illustrated versions in various languages. Scholars debate the identity of the author, calling on textual and handwriting analysis as well as other historical sources.